IMO the main contribution of RStudio is not RStudio itself (the IDE) but their general support of the R language. I think that this dynamic scene where R is sti

IMO the main contribution of RStudio is not RStudio itself (the IDE) but their general support of the R language. I think that this dynamic scene where R is still an evolving language is the true value. I don't actually use RStudio itself (hurray for vim). Tidyverse is the obvious example of their contributions, but I don't mean just tidyverse (actually, there are some things that I don't like that much, like tibbles) [1]. I think a language like R really needs this kind of support due to its mantra: for statisticians, by statisticians. By that I mean that you should be able to get insights by sometimes only writing a handful of lines of code. The ease of use of R, good libraries, nice graphs, and so forth is why I happily code in both R and Python. [1] It seems like here is another thread about some objections to tidyverse: https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic.