Lately, I have had a lot of graduate students asking me how to best integrate coding assistants (from Claude Code to Codex to others) with their R workflows (most of them use RStudio). To aggregate common answers in one place, I've put together this guide, which I thought might be useful to some here:
Section 1 is a quick start that combines Positron, Claude Code, and the btw package for a highly integrated experience that would be very similar to the RStudio experience most of the grad students I work with are already familiar with. The rest of the document discusses other options.