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- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Data Analytics Workflow with R Studio Desktop
Reviewed on 2023/02/10
R Studio Desktop is a great option for data analysts using R programming language who are looking...
R Studio Desktop is a great option for data analysts using R programming language who are looking for a user-friendly and efficient data analytics platform
Pros
R Studio Desktop has a clean and intuitive interface, making it easy for me to navigate my data and analyze it effectively. it also has a number of tools and features that streamline my data analytics workflow, such as built-in code completion, debugging tools, and more
Cons
R Studio Desktop can be slow or laggy, especially when working with large datasets, for new users tutorial is needed
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
R Studio
Reviewed on 2022/02/03
I usually perform simulation, statistical analysis and optimization. It's help me save time and...
I usually perform simulation, statistical analysis and optimization. It's help me save time and lots of variety of options to analysis
Pros
It's user friendly nature and it's community
Cons
The graph and charts need to made more simple so that even a layman can do it. Likewise the way results are printed to the screen
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It's can solve most of optimization problems and always statistical analysis- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Many functionalities but large learning curve
Reviewed on 2020/05/07
Overall it seems like a very worthwhile platform, but extremely time consuming learn the basics....
Overall it seems like a very worthwhile platform, but extremely time consuming learn the basics. This can be frustrating and discouraging.
Pros
There are a ton of packages that can be loaded into R for many purposes (e.g. tables, graphs). For example, GGPlot makes very professional looking graphs that are great for publications. Once you have a basic understanding of the code processes, R can be very useful for a variety of statistics, from simple to quite complex (e.g. MLM, HLM). Also, R is free, which is so amazing considering some of its competitors cost thousands of dollars.
Cons
This is very very difficult to learn as a beginning. It takes quite some time to feel remotely comfortable with the syntax. There are free tutorials on youtube, etc, but it can still be very discouraging as a beginning with coding experience to get started on this platform.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The sophisticated features and tools of R make it a fantastic choice for researchers.
Reviewed on 2022/08/04
In terms of statistical modeling and analysis, R is one of the most used programming languages.
In terms of statistical modeling and analysis, R is one of the most used programming languages.
Pros
Programming in R is available for free and without restrictions. So, there are no requirements for employment, including fees or licenses.
R is a state-of-the-art program that gets updates whenever new features are published.
R has a renowned set of graphics libraries. These libraries provide assistance and improve the R development environment. The libraries that R provides are numerous and have many different uses.
Being able to open the code editor in a separate window is a wonderful feature.
With R, creating impressive graphs and charts is simple.
Cons
R is not able to be used in online applications, for example, which is just one of many restrictions it has.
R lacks sufficient security.
MATLAB and Python are both considerably faster than R as a programming language.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great way to start coding.
Reviewed on 2022/03/22
Is great! You start to reduce your fear and anxiety using this software, it is very intuitive and...
Is great! You start to reduce your fear and anxiety using this software, it is very intuitive and user friendly.
Pros
It is great that it has a interfase that helps you to be familiar with the terminal, variables and libraries.
Cons
It can be helpful a tutorial for each feature, helping to understand all the things that you can do.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
R used to assess the quality of the examination/testing in the department
Reviewed on 2020/01/07
We use it for testing purposes and to analyze our exams in detail and so far it has provided...
We use it for testing purposes and to analyze our exams in detail and so far it has provided invaluable data.
Pros
It gives the analysis of each question and distractor in detail, so it is great to see the results and try to optimize the assessment items.
Cons
There is nothing which can be considered as a con.

- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best IDE I've ever used... Wish I could use it for any language!
Reviewed on 2022/06/04
R was my first love when it comes to coding/data analysis. The ability to easily access the...
R was my first love when it comes to coding/data analysis. The ability to easily access the terminal, console, and script all at once is great, but the tool really shines in the ability to easily work with data and graphs. No other IDE does such a great job at making it easy to explore files, data frames, and graphs.
Pros
RStudio is probably the most sensible and approachable IDE in existence. Super beginner friendly, and it's used by basically anyone who uses R so help, tips, resources, and examples are much easier to find than other tools/languages. The ability to easily explore data frames, file structures, and visualizations is unparalleled across competitors, and basically sets the standard for how an environment should look and feel.
Cons
I'd love to see native python support. It's not really a negative since it's not what the tool is designed for, but the python integration via R is a little clunky for those who kind of know both languages, but don't have time to learn the intricacies of how to run python via r packages. If the creators of RStudio came out with a PyStudio I'd drop all other IDEs in a heartbeat. Package/library management can be a little clunky, but it's something you get used to.

- Industry: Research
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best suite for R programmer
Reviewed on 2021/07/28
In my opinion, Rstudio provides the best environment to be used by statisticians and data scientists...
In my opinion, Rstudio provides the best environment to be used by statisticians and data scientists. The software is great and its supporting website provides a lot of tutorials.
Pros
As a statistician, I have been an active user of the R statistical programming language since 2007, and I had insisted to use the legacy R GUI all these years until about two years ago. Then I started to use RStudio and It was really a big step that makes me more productive.
RStudio is an advanced Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the R language. It has a very nice user interface with advanced code highlighting, viewing data environment, help, and graphs in the same window. Moreover, It is integrated with GIT for easy version controlling inside of the Rstudio. Furthermore, It facilitates creating R shiny apps and developing R packages. Last but not least, it let to easily develop an R notebook to integrate code, graph, table, and documentation with the ability to export it to HTML, PDF, and Word formats. So it is a complete R environment for both Statisticians and Data scientists.
Cons
Rstudio does not provide menu-driven support for data analysis. In fact, a user can make it him/herself by using Shiny apps but the nature of the Rstudio is code-driven and the software graphical user interface is intended to help programmers and data scientists and not ordinary pople that like a menu-driven data analysis framework.

- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best IDE for R
Reviewed on 2021/11/05
Using R Studio has been a breeze. I used it to learn with R and ts built-in tools helped me in that...
Using R Studio has been a breeze. I used it to learn with R and ts built-in tools helped me in that journey
Pros
Ease of use, debugging, and GUI are the best in the buisiness when it comes to R IDEs
Cons
I wish that I could have better information on ram and CPU usage

- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
RStudio is what makes R accessible
Reviewed on 2022/06/21
Very positive.
Very positive.
Pros
I love that I can run code line by line. I work a lot with developing functions and stuff and the ability to see how my data are changing throughout the process is amazing
Cons
In my mind, R and RStudio are synonymous. I would never use anything else to write R code. So, the only things I dislike are reasons to not use R. If you are going to use R, you should use RStudio
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
RStudio Desktop is the best IDE for R
Reviewed on 2023/05/18
Pros
RStudio makes coding in R easy, helpful, and powerful, with a friendly interface and plenty of tools
Cons
RStudio might slow down your computer, sometimes has trouble with big outputs, and doesn't have a menu for data analysis
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best IDE for R
Reviewed on 2019/03/13
The user interface is friendly enough and easy to navigate through for beginners and the tools and...
The user interface is friendly enough and easy to navigate through for beginners and the tools and capabilities are very satisfactory for advanced users. So R-Studio is a great product for a wide range of users.
Pros
I have enjoyed sing R studio in my machine learning project. R-Studio provides great visual representations of data which I found tremendously helpful. If you are doing heavy R coding, R Studio is a must. The variables are defined in the environment and you can see them by simply clicking on them. There are lots of great libraries to experience with once yo get a hang of it. R-Studio can slow down with large data, but the great integration with cloud computing technologies make up for it. I used the Azure Cloud for cloud computing with R-Studio and I liked that the integration was seamless and the process was so easy. I set the cloud in R-Studio under five minutes.
Cons
Some libraries are not optimized for performance. So you might need to try a few libraries before finding an implementation that will run the algorithm smoothly for a large data set. Also, the program might freeze and you might not be able to recover your work. It's always a good idea to save your work.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy way to coding!
Reviewed on 2023/01/09
Excellent tool to start and continue coding in a very user-friendly enviroment.
Excellent tool to start and continue coding in a very user-friendly enviroment.
Pros
I started coding with the terminal alone. Rstudio interfase helps to be more comfortable while creating new codes. Is a great tool to beginners and veterans.
Cons
You can not customize colors and themes on the interfase.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best IDE for R
Reviewed on 2023/01/04
The best IDE for R programmers. Overall great functionality and easy of use.
The best IDE for R programmers. Overall great functionality and easy of use.
Pros
Great functionality. Easy to write/edit/modify code. Easy to use and navigate. Great range of options from just writing code to create Reports (RMarkdown) and dashboards (RShiny).
Cons
Integration with Git might be a bit complex. The Plot Panel is quite limited.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great open-source software for statisticians by statisticians
Reviewed on 2022/10/27
Pros
I love the features that allow you to write free open source code to create beautiful output in minutes to be placed in projects and make presentations right in the application. R is a very expandable language and there a many packages that are available to use.
Cons
There is a learning curve at first, and do to the amount of information available and packages that can be used, it can be hard to narrow down at first what functions to use when. I wish that RStudio made it easier for people to collaborate with people on their team by allowing web access to make the R files like Google Docs - multiple people can edit the same R file at the same time.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent IDE for R.
Reviewed on 2018/12/18
Overall, an excellent IDE for the R language. Not as smooth and bug-free as could be.
Overall, an excellent IDE for the R language. Not as smooth and bug-free as could be.
Pros
An excellent R IDE for beginner and expert alike. A ton of useful features that makes using R extremely easy, such auto-completion, documentation browser, R Notebooks functionality, data viewer, debugging and build tools, GitHub integration, and more. Doesn't hurt that it looks good too, with the available themes.
Cons
Can be a little slow and sometimes glitchy. For example, the data viewer often cannot hand large data samples. Will sometimes crash for no particular reason. The R Notebooks functionality, though still very useful, is currently buggy and missing obvious features - could be much better!
Furthermore, there are some features that are lacking compared to a customisable text editor such as Atom.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Experience using R-Studio
Reviewed on 2019/05/03
With R-Studio, my data analysis tasks at work have been made easier. Its probably the best IDE for...
With R-Studio, my data analysis tasks at work have been made easier. Its probably the best IDE for R available.
Pros
Great interface/layout, its open source, has the auto-complete feature why working with functions (this helps as you know which argument to pass into the function). Another great catch is that you can customise the interface to suit your preference. The ability to see your console, and global environment on the same screen is a big plus.
Cons
I haven't yet discovered a feature I don't like in R-Studio
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
RStudio is the best
Reviewed on 2022/06/21
Research and working with collaborators across labs and at other institutions are made easy.
Research and working with collaborators across labs and at other institutions are made easy.
Pros
RStudio is simple and easy to use. Love the integration with Git & Git Hub. Being able to create Rmarkdown documents and html webpages with data and code is made simple and easy. Creating interactive documents with Shiny applications are also made very easy with RStudio.
Cons
I don't think there is anything specific that I would change about this software other than I think more people should use it and be taught it in school.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Probably the most beginner-friendly IDE out there
Reviewed on 2022/11/30
Pros
The version for personal use is free, making it a great starting point if you’re learning how to use R. All help files are at your fingertip. Also, I can print out my source codes together with the output that are already beautifully in the LaTex format.
Cons
The plot window can look a bit funny at first (the plots are still produced, but you may need to adjust the plot window size for bigger plots to display properly). Also, if your output is rather large, RStudio might freeze without warning after a very long compilation period.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A great tool for statistics.
Reviewed on 2019/10/24
It is a very fast and straightforward tool to analyze data without using Excel or ArcGIS. If you...
It is a very fast and straightforward tool to analyze data without using Excel or ArcGIS. If you know how to code, R-Studio is a convenient tool compared to R or Python if you focus on the analysis. The program is very light.
Pros
A very fast tool that you can manipulate and utilize the data without using tools like ArcGIS or Excel. It is free to use and it can analyze the data with coding, and the speed of analysis is faster than other tools like Python as R-studio is more focused on data analysis. Compared to R, it is more straightforward and easier to use for new users.
Cons
The help menu is somewhat difficult to understand even though you go into the help menu. As for the most coding programs, it is better to use Stack Overflow.
When you use a version control project, sometimes there is an error when you open other files than R project and you might need to download from the respiratory again.
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very useful for research
Reviewed on 2020/08/08
Very satisfied with it, easy to use and exactly what you need to work as a research student that...
Very satisfied with it, easy to use and exactly what you need to work as a research student that analyzes a lot of data.
Pros
You can find a lot of useful programs in R, and R studio makes it easier to use, it saves your last commands, you can see the files you are using, the data, and some notes you have all at the same time. It's very friendly and easy to use.
Cons
It can be overwhelming at first if you have never code before and to see all the small screen at the time time with the commands, but once you get used to it, it's all very convenient.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Fantastic Analytics Software
Reviewed on 2022/03/31
It's our lead tool for data analytics.
It's our lead tool for data analytics.
Pros
The software is a great IDE for coding in R. It's the most simple and easy to use IDE that I've discovered. The UI is a bit outdated but for an IDE, it works.
Cons
The price can be a bit hefty, especially if you are an individual user. And there's still some bugs in the software here and there, but they seem to do a decent job at addressing them with updates.

- Industry: Research
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great Data Analysis Software With a Learning Curve
Reviewed on 2021/02/05
My overall experience with R-Studio has been positive and I have been able to effectively analyze a...
My overall experience with R-Studio has been positive and I have been able to effectively analyze a large amount of data and write papers on it .
Pros
I use R to analyze data for writing papers. What I like about R is that it allows researchers to great insights on their data by using the tools that are in R.
Cons
There is a big learning curve when trying to use R. The software itself does not look inviting to new users and can be daunting.

- Industry: International Trade & Development
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
R-Studio - the main IDE for R
Reviewed on 2019/12/05
R-studio is the main integrated development environment (IDE) for R and it is very good.
R-studio is the main integrated development environment (IDE) for R and it is very good.
Pros
R-studio allows a much more user friendly use of R. It integrates four basic screens (script, console and 2 support screens for help, environment, etc) and features like markdown.
Cons
User friendly as it is, R-studio still needs you to know how to use R language which might have a steep learning curve for some.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Excellent IDE and platform for R programming
Reviewed on 2021/04/16
Quite satisfied and content for R programming with RStudio
Quite satisfied and content for R programming with RStudio
Pros
1, Great coding platform for R - one of the best ones for R programming widely used for statistical programming and machine learning
2. Awesome integration with UI - RShiny to directly showcase backend work
3. Awesome light and dark mode for user preferences
4. Direct git integrations for faster and convenient coding with collaboration
5. Easy to install and run
Cons
Doesn't have too many features like which are available in other programming IDEs like Eclipse for Java