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RStudio 1.2 Released with Support for SQL, Stan, Python and D3

minimaxir 7y ago
The real big change is the rendering engine switch to Chromium. The old renderer froze the app doing pretty much anything with the app window, and caused a lot of slowness when scrolling/typing.
clumsysmurf 7y ago
Lately each time I start R, it pops up a dialog 'the svn command requires the command line developer tools ... Would you like to install the tools now?" but I don't use svn. In the Preferences -> Git / Svn panel, "enable version control" isn't enabled. If I do enable Git / svn there are input fields for their paths, but no obvious way of saying you use one not the other, or you don't have one of them installed. Anyone else see this?
- javierluraschi 7y ago
  Maybe related to https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2792 https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2792? There seems to be a workaround in that issue.
stewbrew 7y ago
Can it be used on 2 monitors yet? I know you can detach the source editor but this is not the way I like it. IMHO RStudio 's usability suffers greatly from the rigid 2x2 layout -- or it did so the last time I tried. I also find the handling of project directories somewhat suboptimal. While I see why many people like RStudio, I think it is lacking wrt usability in certain rather basic aspects. Did that change yet?
closed 7y ago
These days, I often use Rmarkdown for both python and R work. On the R side, Rstudio makes it a pure delight. On the python side, jupytext makes it easy to open / edit Rmds as notebooks. Hats off to the many people in these communities working to give us the best of both worlds :).
peatmoss 7y ago
I’m personally an Emacs Speaks Statistics fan myself, but RStudio has been huge boon to the R community. I expect that this will go a long ways towards making Python more accessible to R users. More importantly, I hope it makes the RNotebook model more popular with the Python crowd. I still do not love Jupyter’s notebook model (Joel Grus sums up most of my arguments—though my biggest beef is with revision control troubles). IMO Org-mode and RNotebooks have the right idea of being text with code interspersed, rather than the other way around. Lastly, I think RStudio support for Julia could go a long ways toward enriching that ecosystem. Julia seems to be mutually acceptable to R and Python users, but better thought out than either.
- doug1001 7y ago
  also an ESS user; do you still use/prefer ESS vs RStudio for package development?
  - peatmoss 7y ago
    Yeah, a few versions back they added (or I discovered) some of the package reloading facilities in ESS and I find them pretty comfortable. I’d say RStudio has an edge WRT to debugging R code... unless I just haven’t figured out ESS properly on that front.
- wodenokoto 7y ago
  I wish rstudio would render markdown in-line. It also tends to forget graphics in output after many open and closes of rmd. I’m intrigued by .org mode but as far as I can tell, there are not options for graphical output while editing
  - peatmoss 7y ago
    You can display graphical outputs inline in Org, and you can also customize how Emacs render Org files while editing. It’s not a direct preview of how it’ll render after exporting to html / latex / pdf / doc / etc., but it’s very comfortable.

The real big change is the rendering engine switch to Chromium. The old renderer froze the app doing pretty much anything with the app window, and caused a lot of slowness when scrolling/typing.

clumsysmurf 7y ago

Lately each time I start R, it pops up a dialog 'the svn command requires the command line developer tools ... Would you like to install the tools now?" but I don't use svn. In the Preferences -> Git / Svn panel, "enable version control" isn't enabled. If I do enable Git / svn there are input fields for their paths, but no obvious way of saying you use one not the other, or you don't have one of them installed. Anyone else see this?

javierluraschi 7y ago
Maybe related to https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2792 https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2792? There seems to be a workaround in that issue.

stewbrew 7y ago

Can it be used on 2 monitors yet? I know you can detach the source editor but this is not the way I like it. IMHO RStudio 's usability suffers greatly from the rigid 2x2 layout -- or it did so the last time I tried. I also find the handling of project directories somewhat suboptimal. While I see why many people like RStudio, I think it is lacking wrt usability in certain rather basic aspects. Did that change yet?

closed 7y ago

These days, I often use Rmarkdown for both python and R work. On the R side, Rstudio makes it a pure delight. On the python side, jupytext makes it easy to open / edit Rmds as notebooks. Hats off to the many people in these communities working to give us the best of both worlds :).

peatmoss 7y ago

I’m personally an Emacs Speaks Statistics fan myself, but RStudio has been huge boon to the R community. I expect that this will go a long ways towards making Python more accessible to R users. More importantly, I hope it makes the RNotebook model more popular with the Python crowd. I still do not love Jupyter’s notebook model (Joel Grus sums up most of my arguments—though my biggest beef is with revision control troubles). IMO Org-mode and RNotebooks have the right idea of being text with code interspersed, rather than the other way around. Lastly, I think RStudio support for Julia could go a long ways toward enriching that ecosystem. Julia seems to be mutually acceptable to R and Python users, but better thought out than either.

doug1001 7y ago
also an ESS user; do you still use/prefer ESS vs RStudio for package development?
- peatmoss 7y ago
  Yeah, a few versions back they added (or I discovered) some of the package reloading facilities in ESS and I find them pretty comfortable. I’d say RStudio has an edge WRT to debugging R code... unless I just haven’t figured out ESS properly on that front.
wodenokoto 7y ago
I wish rstudio would render markdown in-line. It also tends to forget graphics in output after many open and closes of rmd. I’m intrigued by .org mode but as far as I can tell, there are not options for graphical output while editing
- peatmoss 7y ago
  You can display graphical outputs inline in Org, and you can also customize how Emacs render Org files while editing. It’s not a direct preview of how it’ll render after exporting to html / latex / pdf / doc / etc., but it’s very comfortable.