Wow... who knew that JJ Allaire, maker of (among other things) the ColdFusion web development system, also liked playing with R? <a href="http://www.rstudio.org/docs/about" rel="nofollow">http://www.rstudio.org/docs/about</a>
AGPL license, interesting. I suppose the plan is to monetize with a hosting/SaaS service?<p><i>Edit:</i> Found the answer on their blog:<p>> RStudio is also a company, and we plan to sell services (support, training, consulting, hosting) related to the open-source software we distribute.
The UI pretty similar to RKWard (<a href="http://rkward.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://rkward.sourceforge.net/</a>), which is according to me the best IDE, especially for Linux users.<p>P.S. Someone should make a comparison between these two IDEs.
Completely off-topic, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this was R-Studio, an old file/disk recovery software. I was surprised to see that the R IDE has a trademark on "RStudio" (in both US and Canada) given that the former has been around for at least a decade. I guess R-Tools just never cared to file for a TM?
Didn't know anything about R until seeing this post, downloaded the Windows binary and within the hour I was producing graphs. Much easier to get into than MatLab (used it at uni, which is probably why I have an aversion to it!).<p>Really nice bit of kit (as is the R language), and it's free!
I use MatLab mostly for statistical purposes, together with EViews (statistical software geared towards econometrics). This could certainly ease the transition towards R and replace both aforementioned tools.
I was browsing through the web server implementation:<p><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/tree/master/src/cpp/core/http" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/tree/master/src/cpp/core/...</a><p>Can anyone familiar with writing web servers in C comment on this? For instance, how full featured is it? How useful is the code for learning about web servers?
Cool stuff. But it seems lacking manual to run it.
I would like to see manuals about how to build it, run it at command line and etc.
Better docs can really add a lot attractions.
Anyway, thank you for providing such as beautiful tool. It has been years that R under linux has no such a good IDE.
This looks great. Can't wait to dig into it some more.<p>Also excited about the timing... next week I'm starting a new position at a research co where most of my colleagues work in SAS (vs. my preference for R).<p>This may be just the thing to help win some converts :)