Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-13 Thread Vokey, John
...@monticello.org To: R mailing list r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio? Message-ID: 2176ad174d58cb4abbda99f3458c201720713...@granger.monticello.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In my experience, another negative to RStudio is its performance when trying

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-13 Thread Sigbert Klinke
On 12.01.2015 09:01, peter dalgaard wrote: On 11 Jan 2015, at 11:30 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: - I don't like the tiled display. I find it doesn't give me enough space. This is a mixed blessing. For teaching purposes, it helps avoid shuffling windows to uncover

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread peter dalgaard
On 11 Jan 2015, at 11:30 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: - I don't like the tiled display. I find it doesn't give me enough space. This is a mixed blessing. For teaching purposes, it helps avoid shuffling windows to uncover the editor, graph window, and terminal in

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread Jeff Newmiller
If you have two screens the zoom plot window can fill the second screen. Some laptops can handle a second external screen if you use a docking station. --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread peter dalgaard
On 12 Jan 2015, at 09:28 , Jeff Newmiller jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote: If you have two screens the zoom plot window can fill the second screen. Some laptops can handle a second external screen if you use a docking station. Unfortunately, such luxury is not available in the classroom. All

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:01 AM, peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 Jan 2015, at 11:30 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: - I don't like the tiled display. I find it doesn't give me enough space. This is a mixed blessing. For teaching purposes, it helps avoid

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread Hadley Wickham
pushing the vertical divider far to the right. Best, John -Original Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of peter dalgaard Sent: January-12-15 9:00 AM To: Jeff Newmiller Cc: R mailing list Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio? On 12 Jan 2015, at 09

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread Fraser D. Neiman
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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread C W
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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread 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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
[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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread C W
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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread John Fox
-project.org] On Behalf Of peter dalgaard Sent: January-12-15 9:00 AM To: Jeff Newmiller Cc: R mailing list Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio? On 12 Jan 2015, at 09:28 , Jeff Newmiller jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote: If you have two screens the zoom plot window can fill the second screen. Some

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread peter dalgaard
On 12 Jan 2015, at 17:24 , Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason you don't just click the zoom button? Hadley Two, I think. One may be a version issue. 1. Some plots will fail if done on the unzoomed device. 2. The zoom featur has a bug (at least on OSX) where it

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-12 Thread John Fox
to the right. Best, John -Original Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of peter dalgaard Sent: January-12-15 9:00 AM To: Jeff Newmiller Cc: R mailing list Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio? On 12 Jan 2015, at 09:28 , Jeff Newmiller

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread David Stevens
There are other R-friendly editors too. Tinn-R and Notepad++ come to mind. On 1/10/2015 11:04 PM, billy am wrote: I concur. Pls try it. -- | http://billyam.com || http://use-r.com || http://shinyserver.com

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread Rick / rrsanbar
I have four years in the R trenches, and code in R on the Ubuntu command line and the Windows R GUI. Here is an RStudio comparative overview: In the absence of Rstudio, to construct and debug a script I need: 1) A programmer's editor (such as VIM (bad) or Bluefish (better)), in which I

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread jwd
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:22:56 -0500 Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.ca 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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread S Ellison
David Stevens [david.stev...@usu.edu] wrote: There are other R-friendly editors too. Tinn-R and Notepad++ come to mind. TextPad also has an R syntax file. S Ellison *** This email and any attachments are confidential. Any

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread Jeff Newmiller
The RStudio editor itself is pretty mediocre. It is the context sensitive tab-completion with as-you type help that sells it to me anyway. That, with debugging and roxygen and knitr support really make it worth looking at.

[R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-10 Thread Boris Steipe
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

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-10 Thread billy am
I concur. Pls try it. -- | http://billyam.com || http://use-r.com || http://shinyserver.com (BETA) SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 Oracle SQL Expert(11g) On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:47 AM, John Sorkin

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-10 Thread John Sorkin
I urge you to try it. John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-10 Thread Bert Gunter
That is what websites are for. Go to rstudio.com and make your own judgment . I have found that they provide much useful functionality above and beyond R's bare bones GUI. Bert On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.ca wrote: Could someone kindly enlighten me whether