With R 2.14 slated to be released next week we wanted to encourage everyone planning to upgrade to also update to the latest release of RStudio (v0.94.110). For R 2.14 users this release includes tweaks related to compatibility with the R 2.14 graphics engine as well as compatibility with the new parallel package. There are also a number of other bug fixes which make this a worthwhile update even for users not running R 2.14 (see the release notes for details).
In the meantime we’ve also been busy at work on the next release of RStudio (v0.95). This release will include some major new features including a project system, code navigation, as well as an integrated version control UI (for subversion and git). We’ll be announcing a preview of this release on our blog within the next few weeks.
Finally, we also wanted to mention that O’Reilly has published a book by John Verzani on using RStudio. The book has lots of good insights on learning and getting the most out of RStudio, and also covers some more advanced topics like authoring packages. More info on the book is available here.
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October 27, 2011 at 11:22 am
jknowles (@jknowles)
Thank you for all of your hard work. I use RStudio every single day in a production environment and it is a vital tool in my data analysis workflow. The new features sound great.
October 27, 2011 at 11:38 am
jjallaire
Hi Jared,
Thanks for the kind words. Couldn’t help but noticing that you are in the PoliSci PhD program at UW-Madison — I was as well way back in ’92 but only for a year. Say hi Charles Franklin and John Witte for me and best of luck with everything!
J.J.
October 27, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Robert Young
I was going to ask for vi/emacs (the latter is my preference) support, but a quick search turned up some previous such requests with, basically, “later Dude”. Is this more an issue for the R folks, since it looks like RStudio just embeds a stock R console?
October 27, 2011 at 3:03 pm
jjallaire
Yes, we’ve had a few people request this but haven’t yet had time to implement it. The emacs bindings are complicated by the fact that RStudio also runs in the browser, and many of the standard emacs bindings are already taken by the browser.
October 27, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Nono
+1 for vim! But I imagine it would be a big pain to implement.
October 27, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Robert Young
+1, too
I got my formers and latters backwards!
October 31, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Greg
+1 VIM. Just stumbled across the tool. This is great! Thx!
December 24, 2012 at 11:35 am
stv
+1 more, using VIM within Rstudio would be terrific!
December 24, 2012 at 12:40 pm
jjallaire
Hi there,
RStudio v0.97 (available now) includes a VIM mode that you can activate from Options -> Code Editing.
JJ
November 9, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Robert Young
FWIW, I had to re-install 2.13.2 to get RStudio to run. Just updating to 2.14.0 would only flash the screen when running (already installed) RStudio from the icon, running ./rstudio left nothing. I reinstalled RStudio after 2.14.0, got the same.
I backed down to 2.13.2, and it RStudio runs again.
November 9, 2011 at 2:10 pm
jjallaire
Hi Robert,
We’d be interseted in taking a closer look at what might be happening to you on R 2.14. Could you post this to our support forum along with your log and any crash report you can find? The following links provide details on doing this:
http://support.rstudio.org/help/kb/troubleshooting/rstudio-application-logs
If you are on Linux or Mac we can actually get some more fine-grained crash reports as described here:
Linux: http://support.rstudio.org/help/kb/troubleshooting/rstudio-backtrace-utility
Mac: http://support.rstudio.org/help/kb/troubleshooting/rstudio-crash-report
Thanks!
J.J.
November 27, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Keith Weintraub
Any plans to integrate debugging with the IDE?
Thanks,
KW
November 28, 2011 at 6:09 am
jjallaire
Hi Keith,
Yes, we do plan on doing an integrated debugger. We don’t have a specific release date for this but it is definitely a high priority item.
J.J.
December 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm
guillaume avenin
Sounds great, many thanks for your work. R studio is really great.
Project sounds great
do you think you will implement editing of matrix and data.frame objects in a futur release (fix(dataframe))?
Thank you
December 14, 2011 at 12:25 pm
jjallaire
Hi there,
Yes, we do plan on implementing editing of matrix and data.frame objects in future release (not sure of the exact timetable yet though).
J.J.
December 15, 2011 at 6:00 am
Henrik R.
Hello.
I’ve just “discovered” RStudio and it does seem great. I’m doing some teaching (statistics) and have been hesitant as to whether R is slightly too complicated for my students. I think RStudio makes the R-machinery much more user friendly and I hope to implement it into teaching as soon as possible.
Thanks for a very nice product.
December 15, 2011 at 6:58 am
jjallaire
Hi there,
For teaching statistics with R one additional resource you may want to check out is the mosiac package: http://mosaic-web.org/Rpackages/
Mosaic was developed by a group of faculty who use R (and RStudio) to teach undergraduate statistics. Mosaic has a bunch of facilities to smooth out the rough edges of teaching with R, definitely worth a look.
J.J.
January 6, 2012 at 6:18 pm
GregR
I’m a computational biologist (cancer genomics) and am really enjoying Rstudio–definitely an improvement over BBEDIT for productivity with R. Two features I would like to see:
1)Code Snippets to keep a library of insertable functions etc. as in BBEDIT
2)As others have mentioned, function folding to hide the body of functions in the editor.
Thanks!