Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by fasteRstat » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:13 AM UTC

Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language
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Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by jebus989 » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:08 AM UTC

Making R available from Excel seems a good idea to ease the transition for newbies (like R commander) but what advantages does the standalone IDE have over RStudio or the default R.app?

Edit: actually I managed to click through to find this screenshot: http://fasterstat.com/Images/Desktop/12_R_gui.png which looks novel (can't currently watch the video unfortunately)

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by fasteRstat » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

jebus989 wrote: post #2

Making R available from Excel seems a good idea to ease the transition for newbies (like R commander) but what advantages does the standalone IDE have over RStudio or the default R.app? Edit: actually I managed to click through to find this screenshot: http://fasterstat.com/Images/Desktop/12_R_gui.png which looks novel (can't currently watch the video unfortunately)

graphical user interface for selected packages/functions, support for multiple monitors,...

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by anacleto » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

I'm not a big fan of Excel as IDE for R.

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by blawa » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:15 AM UTC

anacleto wrote: post #4

I'm not a big fan of Excel as IDE for R.

Really constructive comment- and it was very easy to guess the 9 points you wanted to mention why it's not a good choice.

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by gerty » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:15 AM UTC

It's hard to compete with RStudio for best IDE for R. I stick with vim-R-plugin for most stuff but RStudio is so helpful for making presentations. But competition is good.

Excel add-on, on the other hand, seems very interesting. I lost lots of time in Excel before I decided to get rid of it instead in favour of R+SQLite. I wonder if it would be possible to make the add-on work under wine though.

Edit: just tried to get FasteR add-on under wine. Unfortunately, it requires .NET 4.5 with which I didn't have much success previously...

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by blawa » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:16 AM UTC

Thank you for making it free for non-commercial use! This is very useful.

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by sunilkumarc » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:19 AM UTC

Is the FasteR IDE or any other equivalent command line utility available for Linux distributions ?

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by sunilkumarc » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:26 AM UTC

Are there any ideas on making it opensource ?

Re: Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language

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Post by jebus989 » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 11:31 AM UTC

fasteRstat wrote: post #3

jebus989 wrote: post #2

Making R available from Excel seems a good idea to ease the transition for newbies (like R commander) but what advantages does the standalone IDE have over RStudio or the default R.app? Edit: actually I managed to click through to find this screenshot: http://fasterstat.com/Images/Desktop/12_R_gui.png which looks novel (can't currently watch the video unfortunately)

graphical user interface for selected packages/functions, support for multiple monitors,...

Both sound good, maybe you could highlight these on your landing page? The picker for RColorBrewer palettes looks particularly handy!