Item: Posit
Rating: 6
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with RStudio

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RStudio as a way to quickly develop and deploy proofs of concept that we can deploy to a core group of users before embarking in a broader industrialization process. It allows us to own the entire process and rapidly bring in code fixes or improvements as requested by the power users.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Deploying known processes already built in R.
Easily producing UI's for triggering known processes in R or SQL.
Creating dashboards.

Cons

Creating landing pages / managing the environment as a whole.
Monitoring app usage.

Return on Investment

Consistency in client reports.
Responsiveness to client needs.

Alternatives Considered

Alteryx Connect

At this point we have more analysts that are enthusiastic about Alteryx than R across the organization but more expert users in R than Alteryx. We have had challenges deploying apps in Alteryx so at this point RStudio is our platform of choice for deploying apps to our internal users. We have other solutions that are more client-facing as well.

Other Software Used

Alteryx Platform, QGIS

Likelihood to Recommend

Currently RStudio is the only environment that we have that allows to deploy apps to our internal users, so in many cases it's the best tool to achieve this purpose (instead of building / compiling executables for instance). We have a small team that is good at RShiny so that's sometimes the challenge.

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A must-have expansion to R core!