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OOH Session #139…
AI–Assisted
App Build

Open Office Hours
(August 05, 2026)

  • Recap session #138
  • Today’s topic(s):
  • Shared problem-solving






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Recap of Session
#138:

Distill

  • “Legacy” package
  • Scientific/technical communication
    • static dynamic
  • Format/Styling
  • “Article” format
    • blogs
    • websites
  • Would most likely use for blog
    • everything else would prefer Quarto

Today…

AI–Assisted App Build


Standalones

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Grok

Integrated

Hybrid

    AI Categorization1


Level Reasoning Depth Context Awareness Speed R/Quarto Support Best For Cost/Privacy
1. Standalone High Project description Medium Excellent (via prompting) Planning & learning Varies (API)
2. IDE-Integrated Medium File + open project High Strong (esp. Copilot) Daily coding Subscription
3. Agentic High Full codebase Medium-High Good (with good prompting) Complex/multi-file work Higher
4. Platform Medium Repo + team Medium Good Review & collab Platform-dependent

& Session Info (August 05, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.5.0    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5         tools_4.5.0      
 [5] htmltools_0.5.9   otel_0.2.0        rstudioapi_0.18.0 yaml_2.3.12      
 [9] rmarkdown_2.31    knitr_1.51        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.57        
[13] digest_0.6.39     rlang_1.1.7       evaluate_1.0.5

Quarto version 1.9.37