RStudio changes name to Posit, expands focus to include Python and VS Code

RStudio is changing its corporate name to Posit, signaling the company’s plans to expand its focus beyond R to include users of Python and Visual Studio Code. The public announcement came this morning at the company’s annual user conference in Washington, D.C.

The company has been stressing that its commercial products are “bilingual” for both R and Python for several years. However, the “RStudio” brand has made it more difficult to convince companies to consider its products for Python …

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