Nice IDE that keeps improving
December 12, 2020

Nice IDE that keeps improving

Esther Kukielka - PhD, DVM, MSc | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with RStudio

Anyone within CDC is able to use RStudio. As I am working in Public Health in USA, and many people use SAS because it is that they are used to. However, with the data modernization push the CDC is doing, more and more people are interested in using R and RStudio.
  • Autocomplete
  • Git tab
  • Project options
  • This could be because I simply don't know how to do it, and may not be a RStudio issue, but when I try to read files that are behind the firewall, everything runs very slow. Also, I cannot have Rmd files behind the firewall: they simply don't run. Also, I cannot get the Git tab to work if I am working behind the firewall.
  • Unstable: It crashes without knowing why.
  • I don't think RStudio has the capability of coding at the same time with your coworkers on the same script/project.
I used PyCharm for another project with Python. Both RStudio and PyCharm are free, so cost is not an issue.
I've worked with RStudio for much longer, so I am used to it's interface. I haven't worked with Python as much, but I think they now have that feature I mentioned before about collaborating simultaneously with coworkers.
Very good for reproducible research - although the different R packages versions could be a problem (I tried working with Renv and my whole R and RStudio crashed: I had to uninstall everything and install it again). But I guess this is more an R issue, not so much RStudio? Maybe RStudio could check that libraries need to be updated so nothing crashes. It could also recommend a set of packages versions that would work together in your code.
Not that good for working collaboratively simultaneously.