RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94) is available for download today. The goal for this release was to refine and improve our core features based on the feedback we’ve gotten on our first two betas. Highlights of the new release include:
- Source editor enhancements — New editor features include brace/paren/quote matching, more intelligent cursor placement after newlines, function navigation, regex find and replace, run to/from the current line, and a command to re-run the last code region. There’s naturally still lots more we’d like to do in the editor and we plan to keep improving it with each beta release.
- New plot export features — We now have a much more flexible plot export UI that supports several formats including PDF, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, BMP, Metafile, and Postscript. The new UI also includes resizable image preview with the ability to maintain the current aspect ratio.
- Package installation and management— We’ve added many more options to the install packages dialog including support for local archives and multiple target libraries. There is also a new check for package updates dialog as well as the ability to filter the packages listing by name and/or description.
- Dozens of other small improvements — We’ve also made many smaller enhancements including context-aware F1 for help, sorting of file listings, resizable plot zoom window, custom PDF export sizes, removing items from history, additional working directory commands, optional syntax highlighting for console input, and .zip and .tar.gz packages for users installing without admin privilleges.
Full details on the various new features, enhancements, and bug fixes in v0.94 are in the release notes.
Thanks again to everyone for the thorough and thoughtful feedback on our previous betas, please keep it coming!
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June 14, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Michael Bishop
When I attempt to update RStudio from within my installation (0.93.84 and win7 x64), it says I already have the newest version. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
June 14, 2011 at 2:07 pm
jjallaire
Hi Michael,
The Check for Updates isn’t picking up our latest release because we haven’t flipped the “offical” update bit yet (we usually do this a few days after the public announcement). If you just go to the download page on the website directly (http://www.rstudio.org/download/desktop) you’ll be able to get the new version from there.
J.J.
June 14, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Michael Bishop
If I install the new version over the old will it keep the old settings?
June 14, 2011 at 3:31 pm
jjallaire
Yes, it will keep the old settings.
J.J.
June 14, 2011 at 2:19 pm
MySchizo Buddy
this project will make a good UI for other projects like octave and maxima
June 14, 2011 at 2:20 pm
MySchizo Buddy
Is Rstudio completely decoupled from R?
June 14, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Joe Cheng
RStudio is highly coupled to R, sorry. The code is AGPL so other projects can look at our stuff and fork it if they want, but it would be way more work than simply dropping in a different language interpreter or implementing some well-defined callbacks.
June 14, 2011 at 3:33 pm
jjallaire
Thanks, we’re currently focused 100% on R and certainly have our work cut out for us to deliver a complete R IDE. As a result the implementation of RStudio is indeed tied closely to R.
J.J.
June 14, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Tal Galili
IMHO, what you are doing is wonderful!
And since it relies on another open source project, its even more great…
July 16, 2011 at 10:48 pm
dernier recours
Rstudio is way ahead many IDEs. I’ve been looking for something similar for Python (numpy-scipy-matplotlib), but nothing of such intuitive Python interface seems to exist.
June 14, 2011 at 6:43 pm
DavidC
Thanks. You’re awesome.
June 15, 2011 at 2:27 am
Antje
Hi there,
I tried to install it on my Mac but when I tried to open it, I got an error message (looks like null pointer exception) and the application hung up… I can send you a screenshot of the error meassge.
June 15, 2011 at 5:34 am
jjallaire
Hi there,
If you could post this on our support forum (http://suppport.rstudio.org) we’ll follow up there. If you attach a screenshot as well as your logs (here is how to get them: http://support.rstudio.org/help/kb/troubleshooting/rstudio-application-logs) that should enable us to get to the bottom of it.
J.J.
June 15, 2011 at 2:43 am
Steve Sidney
Hi
Have just seen this posting and am busy downloading.
Have found RStudio great so far !!
Please see your web dowload page it still refers to 0.93. This is the page that refers to Desktop or Server versions. Maybe you want to get it changed as soon as you can, it might confuse.
All the best
June 15, 2011 at 5:32 am
jjallaire
Hi Steve,
It may be that the reason you are seeing a web download page referring to v0.93 is that the page is being cached somewhere between your browser and our site. Just to make sure that you get the right version you should probably refresh your browser before attempting the download. Apologize for the confusion & inconvenience!
J.J.
June 15, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Steve Sidney
Hi JJ
Thanks and yes now reflecting correctly. I’ve had this problem before and just didn’t consider the issue.
Once again thanks for the response. All look fine now.
June 17, 2011 at 7:58 am
schamber
Thanks for all your work on this product. It is indeed awesome.
June 17, 2011 at 9:30 am
davesteps
Rstudio is great, keep up the good work
June 18, 2011 at 1:18 am
Gary
I am so happy with RStudio – I use it every single day (in the wonderful Cobalt scheme — big thanks to the person who created that and understood the limitations of the 15th century printing press in the context of modern technology and human vision). RStudio is the way I experience R. As a person who is slowly learning not to under-spend his budget, I look forward to learning more about the services to be offered in support of this product, and also the continuation of your easy-install, open source policy.
-Gary
June 18, 2011 at 3:45 pm
allie
Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful work you’ve been doing.
Is there a way to tell RStudio to run R on a remote machine? From time to time I have to sit on a crappy computer and it would be wonderful if it could do this.
Thanks
Allie
June 18, 2011 at 3:47 pm
jjallaire
Hi there,
Yes, you can run RStudio as a server and access it via a web browser. You can download the server at http://www.rstudio.org/download/server and find documentation on how to set it up at http://www.rstudio.org/docs
Cheers,
J.J.
June 18, 2011 at 4:25 pm
allie
Thanks. That’s great, but what I meant was running RStudio locally and asking it to use a remote session of R. My impression is that this shouldn’t be probably easier.
It ought to establish an SSH connection at first, but that should be about the only difference.
Best,
Allie
June 19, 2011 at 7:52 am
jjallaire
Hi Allie,
This wouldn’t be as straightforward as just redirecting to an SSH connection. The R process which RStudio runs against is an integral part of RStudio, so needs to be installed on the remote machine (rather than just relying on a vanilla R instance there). This is basically the scenario that RStudio Server is intended to address — install RStudio on a sever then access it via a browser. That said, I know that some users have installed RStudio desktop version on remote server and then just used X (tunneled over SSH) to access their session.
J.J.
June 20, 2011 at 5:11 pm
vestigar
Great work – I’m especially really happy about the much-better image export and remove items from history.
July 1, 2011 at 6:11 am
clongbottoms
Guys this stuff is absolutely amazing! I use the server version ALL the time now.
Keep up the good work on this!
July 7, 2011 at 12:22 am
andremun
Congratulations, this is an excellent GUI. If you could add debugging tools, would be amazing.
July 25, 2011 at 9:30 am
alien
I use RStudio everyday at work. Thanks so much for an amazing product. Hope there’s an iPad app in the future as well.
September 27, 2011 at 8:18 am
Patrick Hubers (@phubers)
Great tool. I already liked the Eclipse/StatET combination, but RStudio has some other great features. I would love to see it grow into the ultimate R work environment.
Keep up the great work!
October 3, 2011 at 6:17 am
Lucifer
Thank you very much for such a wonderful job!
I just (today) came across your IDE and I love it. (especially the CTRL+Space thing Rocks cause you can learn some R too this way (without reading too much)
I wonder if you would like to implement the PASTE option on the Files. Sometimes I need a file or two for compiling my tex files and a Paste option would be really great.
thank you
October 3, 2011 at 6:55 am
jjallaire
Hi there,
Thanks for the feedback. A clarification: do you mean paste from a copy you made in Explorer/Finder/Nautilus or do you mean copy and paste within the Files pane? (or is it both)
Thanks,
JJ
November 3, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Colin
Why is the size of RStudio 40MB, while only 15MB on Windos. what is the catch here? I didn’t download it for my Mac only on my Windows.
November 3, 2011 at 3:40 pm
jjallaire
Hi there,
The increased size on MacOS is because the included Qt libraries are multi-architecture (built for 32 & 64-bit Intel + PowerPC) and just in general larger due to platform differences.
J.J.
May 8, 2012 at 7:52 pm
mosga
Hi guys – awesome software. I would love a way to add my favorite font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono) and tweak the stock themes (the Cobalt theme background isn’t black enough for me). Can either of these be readily done?
May 8, 2012 at 8:13 pm
jjallaire
Our upcoming release will allow you to specify a custom font. You can download a preview of it here:
http://www.rstudio.org/download/preview
In terms of tweaking the themes, there unfortunately isn’t a way to do this right now.
J.J.