RStudio is Very Useful but Needs Improvements
December 23, 2021
RStudio is Very Useful but Needs Improvements
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with RStudio
I use RStudio to manipulate, munge, analyze data for ad hoc projects, and create visualizations. [My main use for the platform] is for projects that are too big or slow for Excel.
- good visual design environment
- Allows you to quickly see your data set in tabular form
- Manages package list/download well
- When rendering a plot, there are several issues bringing it more smoothly to copy/paste it to a slide deck, etc. It is very frustrating that the aspect ratio, etc. visual quality is not consistent from when you originally render to when copy/paste or downloading as a file to later be put in a slide.
- My resolution changes between laptop mode and desktop mode (plugging into external monitors). In desktop mode I literally have to shut RStudio down and restart/reload/rerun to continue my project. HOW DO I fix this? Is there a way. I've seen a toggle that says it can bounce back and forth depending on device type but it doesn't seem to work!
- When a program hangs, there is a red stop sign ( I think) in console corner to end the process. This requires, however that I need to complete restart RStudio and restart/reload/rerun etc. Can't it just start but keep all packages, datasets, variables in memory?
- Brings to light the data that cannot be managed/visualized by Excel. This helps decision making using data.
- Learning curve in R is steep. Using Tidyverse packages is a HUGE help.
I understand the Jupyter notebook is supposed to be good like RStudio, and I've been exposed to it a little bit. But my experience using it has been very little.
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