In my experience, another negative to RStudio is its performance when trying to access code or data files on a remote server over a VPN connection -- even modest files can take minutes to load and sometimes crash the session.
The native R GUI seems to handle this better and I often am forced to use it when working remotely. But there is enough other good stuff in RStudio to make this a bummer. Fraser -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:31 AM To: Boris Steipe; R mailing list Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio? On 10/01/2015 9:22 PM, Boris Steipe wrote: > Could someone kindly enlighten me whether there are currently advantages to > use R Studio vs. the normal R GUI? On the Mac I can't seem to find anything > compelling, on Windows (which I don't use myself) I noticed last year that > there seems to be no syntax highlighting available for the R GUI but R Studio > had it. > > Surely there must be some value proposition in that project, what am I > missing? I find several advantages, and one or two disadvantages. - The debugger is nicer. You can set breakpoints in the code editor and it installs them in the right place. - It has lots of support for things like Sweave, knitr, rmarkdown, etc. - It is easy to switch between different projects. - It looks the same on all platforms, so if you switch platforms you still know what you're doing. Negatives: - I don't like the tiled display. I find it doesn't give me enough space. - At least until recently, I haven't checked with the latest release, it converts files to the native format, i.e. saving a file on Windows gives you CR LF line endings, doing it elsewhere converts them to LF. This is really irritating when files get changed for no good reason. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
