MATLAB's neurophysiological data pre-processing third-party packages are more scientifically validated compared to support for other software platforms. It also allows for writing code with a greater level of functionality and more capabilities than R-Studio, which is instead …
MATLAB has a very large database of embedded functions and it is continually growing. Graphics processing is much easier than other similar product for beginners (such as Jupyter notebook and Python). Although it is not an open-source language, lots of learning materials and …
I like the user interface of MATLAB and find it most intuitive compared to any of the other three programs I listed. However, unlike RStudio and Oracle VM VirtualBox, MATLAB is not open source. I do prefer MATLAB over PyCharm, because I find MATLAB to be a bit more intuitive. I …
MATLAB is very similar to R and Python, but has cleaner syntax than R and more in-built functionality than Python. However, both are free and therefore have that significant advantage over MATLAB.
SQL is simpler but much more limited in use.
RStudio is the free alternative to MATLAB. It works just as well as the other software, and more features can be accessed but to the open-source nature. This software is more commonplace in the research lab setting due to its free cost.
Far better integrated and easy to use. The only full-blown Python IDE is PyCharm, and it is a monolith. I used Spyder instead. I was very happy when RStudio added Python support so I can ditch Jupyter Notebooks, which really isn't an IDE but is more like RMarkdown, a small …
While many of these are great, RStudio is the best for R work. There is also native support in the IDE for combining other languages, like Python, into workflows easily so work across languages can be handled in one location.
In our organization RStudio is the main competitor for STATA. STATA has a larger number of users as it is far more user-friendly and has a large number of canned routines that work really well. RStudio is a niche software ideally suited to work with larger datasets.