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RStudio helps reluctant researchers with its intuitive IDE
December 18, 2020

RStudio helps reluctant researchers with its intuitive IDE

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with RStudio

RStudio is used in my company to provide reproducible research in the form of scripted data analysis.
  • Script-driven research which allows for provenance and reproducibility.
  • Intuitive IDE that is constantly improving.
  • Tight integration with git / GitHub.
  • Tighter integration to other proprietary tools such as REDCap, SAS, SPSS.
  • More point-and-click to code tools for reluctant coders.
  • Has allowed some users to dodge expensive licenses (e.g. SAS, SPSS).
Honestly there is no other player in the R IDE game that I would even consider worthy of comparison. If you code in R, you need RStudio.
RStudio is great for small to medium size data with single threading. The R language is RAM-greedy so I would not propose R / RStudio for large datasets (>2G).