No that's not really what it does. You can edit code separately from the REPL(which is also directly available), view plots, examine some data objects, view hel

No that's not really what it does. You can edit code separately from the REPL(which is also directly available), view plots, examine some data objects, view help/command history/etc. Essentially it's like an IDE for the R language, it doesn't turn R into like an SPSS GUI type interface. Edit: the closest thing I can think of in RStudio to that is installing the manipulate package which allows adding sliders and such to plots for some custom plotting controls.