Epic: Private Beta

[petetronic]

Tasks

• New Private Repository positron-beta
• Private Beta: Update license to evaluation-only #2242
• Windows: Installer to show Posit license for Beta #1754
• Private Beta: Update Readme #2240
• Private Beta: Update Wiki with Install Instructions #2241
• Private Beta: Help > View License opens a private URL which will not work for external customers #2266
• Review Beta with Posit Security

[jennybc]

Observations on Home > Machine Prerequisites > R Prerequisites

• I would be tempted to mention rig. Because, for most R folks, one of the cool things about Positron is that it becomes much more feasible to have and regularly use more than 1 version of R. And rig is definitely the easiest way to do that.

  Possible wording: "To install R, follow the instructions .... Alternatively, if you'd like to have multiple R installations, rig is a great way to manage this and Positron plays well with this set-up."

• Have we recorded why we need dev cli and dev crayon? To the extent that it has anything to do with usethis, early next week I will merge Use cli r-lib/usethis#1956. So if the recommendation stems from usethis, we could recommend installing dev usethis and not mention dev cli or crayon.

• Recommend dev usethis, regardless.

• In general, tidyverse and r-lib show dev installation via pak::pak() these days in their READMEs and pkgdown sites, so I suspect we should do that here as well. (Especially since positron-r uses pak!)

[jennybc]

Observations on Interpreter Selection > Choose a new interpreter:

The warning about losing state ... presumably this is a bit more subtle for R? We do have a setting for restoring .RData:

which reminds me that #964 is still open re: hitching this up with behaviour around saving .RData.

In any case, it's a big deal for R users that, by default at least, we absolutely opt them in to the "blank slate" lifestyle. This is going to surprise some folks (but I think it's super healthy and I'm so glad we're doing it).

[jennybc]

Observations on Troubleshooting > Python and R Logs > Output Panel

Positron R Extension is another biggie to mention. That is, for example, where the test explorer logs.

[jennybc]

Observations on Updating Positron > Via Update Script.

Maybe we should have a clickable hyperlink to the update script, so someone could easily read it before they take the leap of faith by downloading and running it.

[juliasilge]

I believe the need for dev cli and crayon is not very driven by usethis. Here is an example of what we need these dev packages for.

[juliasilge]

With the work done in #2494, we now consider the "writing code" part of this finished. ✅