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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 g…
Windows only ? Meh. And integrating with Excel is completely useless (and meaningless, since you don't need to use a spreadsheet representation to work with data when you think in R), R beats Excel for about everything once you are used to it.
I was also looking for an OS X / Linux version. The website doesn't mention being Windows only, will other operating systems be supported in the future?
Also, why would I pay €399 for FasteR while its main competitor is more mature and completely free? Aside from Excel add-in, the two other reasons I've found are in the comments here: "graphical user interface for selected packages/functions, support for multiple monitors". Am I missing something?
And yet they keep that butt-ugly logo. Is it an in-joke, or something?
It actually kind of is. GNU logos are consistently incredibly ugly and show utter disdain for, or lack of awareness of, graphical design [0]. It could be almost like a philosophical point: "GNU software is utilitarian. We don't waste time on fancy graphics". Or it could be that GNU developers tend to be... developers. No designers in sight, and no appreciation for visual aesthetics. 0: https://www.gnu.org/graphics/pa…
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Unfortunately, the R language isn't fast, especially not the imperative features (loops). A language like Julia is a better bet in that respect. The drawcard of R is the breadth of specialised statistical packages. (Often with inner loops written in C for performance.)
in R loops are generally frown upon due to this issue. BUT R is not slow when it comes to parallel processing or using Revolution Anayltics also has speed ups if you need it. R also has dplyr is speedy and the data.tables is even faster. I think the original Julia speed claims were a little biased to Julia and well there is plenty of awesome things about R, but "slow" isn't a far statement. There is a reason why R ha…
(This comes up often, and I'm not sure why I'm compelled to reply today, but there it is.)
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I was also looking for an OS X / Linux version. The website doesn't mention being Windows only, will other operating systems be supported in the future?
Website lists .net framework 4.5 as a requirement, so that seems unlikely.
I urge you to make a Chocolatey package to make updating easy.
There's also a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of usability. e.g. the objects browser should automatically refresh when you "transfer data". Also I'd love to be able to make "transfer data" use a data.table instead of data.frame.
Killing the R process then hitting refresh on the object browser results in a crash.
What happens when you just download FasteR? Does it work for a limited period and then stop working, will it ask me for a license each time I start it? Also, why would I pay €399 for FasteR while its main competitor is more mature and completely free? Aside from Excel add-in, the two other reasons I've found are in the comments here: "graphical user interface for selected packages/functions, support for multiple moni…
399 is for both editions of software for next two years. There are multiple reasons not only two... Mainly the GUI, but this is not in current 0.4.1 version available in the form as I imagine. I only follow the advice: Release something before you are satisfied.
Beware the IDEs of March!
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A major use-case for Excel integration is in finance, where a vast number of analysts - not newbies in any meaningful sense - work in Excel. Giving them access to the power of R from within a familiar environment is a great thing. Recommendation for the developer (if you're not doing this already): market hard to finance businesses. You'll make a killing.
Term newbies in R was what the poster before stated. Personally I would NOT want to have anyone use R with a spreadsheet program. 1) I want manipulated data that is clear to replicate 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet