Positron Alternatives

Positron is described as 'A free, next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC. An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data. A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Positron for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Positron alternative is Microsoft Visual Studio. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Microsoft Visual Studio or Jupyter. Other great apps like Positron are RStudio, Spyder, PSPP and JASP.

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  1. Stata icon
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    Data Analysis and Statistical Software for Professionals.

    Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics. Stata is not sold in pieces, which means you get everything you need in one package.

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  2. Ardos icon
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    Discover Erdos, the secure AI-native IDE that pairs Jupyter notebooks with an embedded assistant to edit code, surface documentation, and accelerate analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    R AnalyticFlow is a data analysis software that utilizes the R environment for statistical computing. In addition to intuitive user interface, it also provides advanced features for R experts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. roobuilder icon
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    It's a cross between Glade / Visual Studio — the idea is that most 'action' code for an application is actually quite simple - so entering the code on the event handlers for a widget makes the proximity of code to action better.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Polynote icon
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    Polynote is a different kind of notebook. It supports mixing multiple languages in one notebook, and sharing data between them seamlessly. It encourages reproducible notebooks with its immutable data model.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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    BlueSky Statistics is a fully featured statistics application and development framework built on the open source R project.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  7. RKWard icon
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    RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions. RKWard tries to combine the power of the R-language with the ease of use of commercial statistical...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. SOFA Statistics icon
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    SOFA Statistics is an open-source statistical package, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output. The name stands for Statistics Open For All. It has a graphical user interface and can connect directly to MySQL, SQLite, MS Access, and MS SQL Server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  9. DataSpell icon
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    JetBrains DataSpell is an IDE for data science with intelligent Jupyter notebooks, interactive Python scripts, and lots of other built-in tools.

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    • Mac
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  10. Rattle icon
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    Rattle is a GUI for data mining using R. All interactions through the graphical user interface are captured as R script. It presents statistical and visual summaries of data, transforms data, builds machine learning models, and scores new datasets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Deducer icon
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    Deducer is designed to be a free easy to use alternative to proprietary data analysis software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It has a menu system to do common data manipulation and analysis tasks, and an excel-like spreadsheet in which to view and edit data frames.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Xfce
     
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