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Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Does anyone have a short list of the best sites to learn R? I only have two on my list, and one is for advanced users:

http://adv-r.had.co.nz - Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/r/

I keep my links on Github: https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/r.o...

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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post #11

Does anyone have a short list of the best sites to learn R? I only have two on my list, and one is for advanced users: http://adv-r.had.co.nz - Advanced R by Hadley Wickham https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/r/ I keep my links on Github: https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/r.o...

There is also the R Inferno "If you are using R and you think you’re in hell, this is a map for you": http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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post #11

Does anyone have a short list of the best sites to learn R? I only have two on my list, and one is for advanced users: http://adv-r.had.co.nz - Advanced R by Hadley Wickham https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/r/ I keep my links on Github: https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/r.o...

If you'd like more of an online classroom setting:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/r-programming (free to audit)

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Hi folks - Last year we polled HN on whether there'd be interest in R integration in Visual Studio. You said "YES!", so here it is! I'll be around in case you have any questions. BTW RTVS was built by the same group that made PTVS (Python Tools for VS) and NTVS (Node.js Tools for VS). RTVS will also be free & open source of course. Cheers

Wow, new world indeed.

PTVS is fantastic, I'm glad to see it carried on.

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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I got to test this tomorrow at work, however loading up a huge program instead of a web page where all the stuff is stored on a server is going to require some changes in behavior. And I usually work from Linux, so it will be in a VM. But I'll try :)

Understood. RTVS itself is 3MB's. Hopefully you won't have to install VS more than once or twice a year as it's several Gigs...

Speaking of a web page, our team also did "Jupyter notebooks as a Service" on Azure ML. You can fire up a notebook quickly and code away - essentially like tmpnb if you've used it, but your notebook is persisted.

we'll be adding more languages soon. Try one of the samples at: (no login), or start w blank notebook in the Azure ML Studio:

https://gallery.cortanaanalytics.com/browse/?categories=[%22...

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Looks like a promising alternative to Rstudio on a Windows platform. If only it was available on Linux...

Visual Studio will be coming to Linux

There are no such plans. But we have VS Code, which is great lighter weight IDE that's cross platform. Check it out here:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

It has great support for js, node, go, .net etc. already. We'll hopefully add Python & R support soon.

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post #11

Does anyone have a short list of the best sites to learn R? I only have two on my list, and one is for advanced users: http://adv-r.had.co.nz - Advanced R by Hadley Wickham https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/r/ I keep my links on Github: https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/r.o...

http://swirlstats.com/

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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post #9

Hi folks - Last year we polled HN on whether there'd be interest in R integration in Visual Studio. You said "YES!", so here it is! I'll be around in case you have any questions. BTW RTVS was built by the same group that made PTVS (Python Tools for VS) and NTVS (Node.js Tools for VS). RTVS will also be free & open source of course. Cheers

" RTVS will also be free & open source of course."

Ten years ago I would have never thought I'd say this, but I am really liking Microsoft these days. Great work!

(here's the repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS)

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