Can I enable Posit AI on Posit Cloud? I would love to try it as a teaching tool when I teach ML starting in mid May.
Hello. This is not currently available as Posit AI is only available in RStudio Desktop, not the IDE version we use on Posit Cloud.
Once it is available in the relevant versions - likely in the next month or two - we plan to make it an admin setting in Posit Cloud to allow Posit Assistant to be installed in Posit Cloud RStudio projects.
Although I don't think it is likely to be ready by the time your ML class starts, it is on our radar.
I'm curious. How would you expect your students to use this? Currently, they would need to start a Free Trial for Posit AI and eventually upgrade for continued usage.
Alex
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I'm a random member of the community looking at doing something similar for a Python course. I am curious if your ML course you are teaching is based in R and thus you're interested in Posit Cloud?
I'm not as familiar with the R machine learning tools and have been focused on Python ML tools, but I would be interested in your curriculum.
Thanks.
Hi Alex,
I figured it was a long shot.
Because I am at a private university, where students are already paying a premium for their education, I or my department picks up the tab for Posit Cloud. While it is going to get expensive fast, I am planning on paying for a $20/month Anthropic subscription for each of my students so they can use Claude Code and also the cost of Posit AI. I am a huge fan of Claude Code and am optimistic that Posit AI will be good. Frankly, having them and me learn to use Posit AI at the same time will hopefully let me have a good basis for making comparisons and telling the folks here if it is worth the cost.
I teach Biostatistics and I am horrified about leaking PHI. So I was hoping to have Posit Cloude act as a walled sandbox for them to play with safe data. If there is a chance to get the daily builds on Posit Cloud in the next couple of weeks I would love to kick the tires and give feedback from 5 or 10 MS and PhD Biostatistics students.
Ray
Hello Codetricity,
Yes I teach with R. I have been using the R Studio IDE in Posit Cloud for years and I highly recommend it for R. It removes all the setup barriers and lets students experience success early. I have not used Jupyter Notebook much at all on Posit Cloud but I would expect similar benefits. Posit Cloud is wonderful for its stability and it allows you to to check in on student's work, help debug and/or grade 24/7 as needed.
Unfortunately, I don't have a public repo with my materials. I teach using An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R (ISLR) along with Tidymodeling with R. ISLR has a great gentle introduction to key ideas (and there is a python version). Tidymodeling with R uses the tidymodels ecosystem of packages which gives a great consistent interface to ML in R and it uses the many small functions approach popularized in UNIX and Tidyverse.
Ray
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Ray,
Thank you for your help and advice.
I'll look into Tidymodels and Tidyverse with Posit Cloud RStudio.
You sound like a fantastic teacher and really an advocate for your students. Integrating Claude Code into your course is so bold! I don't think most of the U of California teachers are doing this for their students.
I am new to Posit Cloud and actually only wandered into this community by way of Python backend development. I guess it's an odd way to enter, but I needed a frontend for data visualization of log files and had started to use Plotly (Python package) with Cursor. This lead me to search for a better way.
Getting your advice on a cloud-based IDE environment that is setup for the students is really great as you have real-world experience with this.
Good luck with your next crop of students.