I use R on Mac, and I use RStudio on Windows. That's my opinion. I have one problem.
When I use R on Mac. The function plot() gives a graph that's cut off. For example, try plot(rnorm(100) I believe there should be space below "index" on x-axis. Why is that? Thanks, Mike On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Fraser D. Neiman <fnei...@monticello.org> wrote: > > In my experience, another negative to RStudio is its performance when > trying to access code or data files on a remote server over a VPN > connection -- even modest files can take minutes to load and sometimes > crash the session. > > The native R GUI seems to handle this better and I often am forced to use > it when working remotely. But there is enough other good stuff in RStudio > to make this a bummer. > > > > > Fraser > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:31 AM > To: Boris Steipe; R mailing list > Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio? > > On 10/01/2015 9:22 PM, Boris Steipe wrote: > > Could someone kindly enlighten me whether there are currently advantages > to use R Studio vs. the normal R GUI? On the Mac I can't seem to find > anything compelling, on Windows (which I don't use myself) I noticed last > year that there seems to be no syntax highlighting available for the R GUI > but R Studio had it. > > > > Surely there must be some value proposition in that project, what am I > missing? > > I find several advantages, and one or two disadvantages. > > - The debugger is nicer. You can set breakpoints in the code editor and > it installs them in the right place. > > - It has lots of support for things like Sweave, knitr, rmarkdown, etc. > > - It is easy to switch between different projects. > > - It looks the same on all platforms, so if you switch platforms you > still know what you're doing. > > Negatives: > > - I don't like the tiled display. I find it doesn't give me enough space. > > - At least until recently, I haven't checked with the latest release, it > converts files to the native format, i.e. saving a file on Windows gives > you CR LF line endings, doing it elsewhere converts them to LF. > This is really irritating when files get changed for no good reason. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.