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Staff scientists / RSE @LCBC_UiO & @LifebrainEU. She/Her.

PhD Cognitive Neurosciences 🧠

@rladies.org Global Team.

#Rstats #Nerd 🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Managed to isolate the issue! Seems you might not be supporting the describe-it processes from testthat.

github.com/posit-dev/po...
Testing with testthat describe-it never produces output · Issue #10682 · posit-dev/positron
System details: Positron and OS details: Positron Version: 2025.12.0 build 85 Code - OSS Version: 1.105.0 Commit: 3f11894 Date: 2025-11-18T07:19:08.570Z Electron: 37.6.0 Chromium: 138.0.7204.251 No...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
thanks, did that! :) But I can't seem to get it to run anything, not terminal not in console. I've scrolled through settings and think I have everything that should be enabled, enabled.
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Maybe? But I did have the expectation that positron assistant would be more active in agentic mode than I've been able to get it, and it's told me several times that it cannot execute R code, so I was assuming I needed to do more _stuff_ to get it working
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Because mine does not seem to manage that and I thought it was because I had not set it up.
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've looked at `mcptools` and `btw` and they seem like the things to use for #rstats MCP servers, but still, I'm not sure how to integrate into #PositronAssistant
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
2. I'm trying to set up #PositronAssistant to use R as an #MCPserver, and seem to not quite understand how that is done. The "MCP Servers" button in the assistants take me to the Extensions tab, and I don't see any place to set up config etc for the MCP servers for Positron (as I would for Continue)
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
1. I have a test-suite that currently is not being run properly during testing. I run the tests, it seemingly does something, but there is no output and no tests get marked as failed or successful. It's not skipping, at least it should not. Anyone experienced something like that before?
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Cool cool cool 😊 welcome to my sporadic posting 🤣
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm interested in knowing what prompted you to follow me? Genuine question 😊
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It really is such a very powerful and versatile approach, but thinking in so many dimensions is a struggle!
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Had a lot of fun figuring that one out 😊
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Imagemagick is such an amazing system library, and having it easily callable from #rstats is so convenient!
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I don't think I will ever understand it, and I'm kind of happy I don't need to. I just need to get the pieces working.

And thank you to @hadley.nz and Posit. That's some solid piece of stuff you've made, and makes my OAuth and curl headaches less than what they would have been.

httr2.r-lib.org
Perform HTTP Requests and Process the Responses
Tools for creating and modifying HTTP requests, then performing them and processing the results. httr2 is a modern re-imagining of httr that uses a pipe-based interface and solves more of the…
httr2.r-lib.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Could not have don't this without dealing with the nettskjema API, and OAuth.

But OAuth has sooo many ways of working, and every API sets their own constraints and systems on how to authenticate. So every new API I try to work against, is learning a whole new bit of OAuth I knew nothing about...
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I work poorly with deadlines, stress shuts me down faster than ever before and my brain just becomes cotton wool. However, having this pipeline set up means I still contribute within my own parameters, and I am no bottleneck.
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A daily digest ensures my colleagues always have access to plots, tables and summaries of the responses, so the grant writing goes smoothly also in my absence.
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
For instance, as I am only working 10% but work deadlines still exist. I made a pipeline using my own nettskjemar package to create a daily digest of the responses from our survey on the current #nfr infrastructure grant proposal we are working on.

www.capro.dev/nettskjemar/
Connect to the nettskjema.no API of the University of Oslo
Enables users to retrieve data, meta-data, and codebooks from <https://nettskjema.no/>. The data from the API is richer than from the online data portal. This package is not developed by the…
www.capro.dev
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM