On Sun 16 Aug 2020 at 06:32, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> a) Read about it yourself. It is a legal definition. > > b) Don't "correct" me with misinformation you are clearly inventing. > RStudio the software does not "introduce people to a modified version of > R." Each user has to opt in to that "modified" experience by explicitly > installing each of the the many CRAN packages that various employees of > RStudio have created and all of which can (to my knowledge) be used without > installing the RStudio IDE at all. Yes, a bunch of them can be grabbed at > once by installing the tidyverse package, but that is also a choice made by > users and by instructors struggling to deal with students who have a hard > time with Excel much less functional programming. But RStudio is an R IDE. > > There are a lot of packages sponsored by RStudio that I find redundant and > slow, but portraying the RStudio company or the IDE as inherently "not R" > just because newbies like the IDE and the packages they sponsor, and who > end up confusing R with RStudio even though they have to install both, is > small-minded and biased To clarify: If you use RStudio and do not install any of the RStudio packages, R in RStudio is the same R as if you were running it from the command line. I would think that many users find command completion, access to help files, project management Etc. useful. Nobody is asking anyone to install the RStudio packages. I do sometimes but not always and have found them useful. Jeff is 100% correct. > On August 15, 2020 9:10:34 PM PDT, Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:11 PM Jeff Newmiller > ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > >> It is a public benefit corporation > > > >Seriously? > > > >On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:11 PM Jeff Newmiller > ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > >> used to introduce people to R > > > >Correction, it introduces people to a modified version of R. > > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.