> many statistics packages provide only weak text editor functionality RStudio IDE with vim keybindings gives an extremely nice developer experience when worki

> many statistics packages provide only weak text editor functionality RStudio IDE with vim keybindings gives an extremely nice developer experience when working with R. There are only a few minor imperfections [1, 2, 3]. I'd still rate it a 9.5/10 dev experience. I've recently been experimenting with R + neovim + vim-slime. It's not perfect but also a very nice experience. It enables interactive use of R but with the full power of neovim. [1] control + 1 and control + 2 to switch between editor and console (pressing them in a hurry requires finger gymnastics) [2] while vim keybindings work in the script pane, they don't work in the console [3] about once per day for reasons I can't explain, RStudio's vim keybindings don't do what they should do (e.g. a key press is ignored)