Just saw the announcement of the availability of Rstudio, a new (free & open source) integrated development environment for R that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Judging from the screenshots, it looks like Rstudio supports syntax highlighting for Sweave & easy PDF creation from Sweave code, which is something I haven't seen anywhere else (on Windows at least). It also has all the features you'd expect of any IDE: code syntax highlighting, code completion, an object and history browser, and a tabbed interface for editing R scripts. I've been happily using NppToR for some time now, and although it works well for me, it's no real IDE solution. I'll have to give this one a shot.
RStudio - an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
I installed RStudio on my Macbook Air with no problem. I have like the Mac environment much better than Windows. (I use mac at home and windows at work.) It will be nice to have RStudio as an alternative.
ReplyDeleteI have not been using Sweave because I am not already a TeX user, and I haven't tackled the learning curve. I hope RStudio may make this eaiser.
RStudio looks very nice indeed!!!
ReplyDeleteJust installed it - and my first impression is...freaking impressive! :)
ReplyDeleteFinally someone had the ability to integrate the plot window in a unified IDE. Even Revolutions dont do that - and that costs money!! I havent taken it for a drive yet, just run some simple code snippets - but from what i've seen I'll jump ship! This is what I imagined my R IDE being from the start. I was getting disillusioned after trying everything from RGui, Tinn-R, Eclipse-StatET, Revolutions R Enterprise and ended up with Notepad++/NppToR - as mentioned - NOT an ideal solution.
I installed RStudio last week on my Macbook and found that it runs 5 - 10 times slower than native R. Very disappointed by the performance, but loved the GUI. I'm hoping that with time, the performance will improve.
ReplyDeleteI have also noticed a huge slowdown between the R command line and RStudio.
ReplyDeleteAt this point it seems great for small projects, but for anything computation-intensive I'll stick with Notepad++ and NppToR.
I also get more frequent out of memory errors with R studio.
I tried the updated version again a few days ago and found the same slowdown in performance - it crashed my system after using for 30mins!!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, the IDE is "pretty", and yes there have been some promising improvements in customising it, but the performance is still poor.
I am surprised the developers haven't put a beta tag on it.
i too installed RStudio and I was really impressed by their implementation of Tex and Sweave files.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately you can;'t do any text completion in either tex or sweave. hopefully they will solve that and I will finally switch from Eclipse/StatET