Well, I'm going to start my Master's in september and I'll need R programming skills for about 3 courses. I've only had some training and experience with Matlab so far, so I'm currently reading some tutorials and docs to make the switch. I'm one day in and right now, I'm a little frustrated with my IDE choices. I've seen a couple of slim editors that extend the R GUI by one or two features, but nothing too big to really make a difference. What annoys me to no end is that there seems to be no GUI offering an equivalent to Matlab's "Workspace" - an overview of the variables you're currently using. Yes, there's the ls() function, but that just gives me a very crude idea of what I'm working with - no information about variable types and values at-a-glance, no instant additional information like means, median, etc. of vectors, like in Matlab.
I've tried Eclipse but that thing is a bit like the antichrist to set up on a windows machine, it drove me nuts yesterday and I'm not sure if I want to rage more just to get a slow IDE which STILL doesn't seem to offer the features I want.
Is there anything like that for R out there?
I've tried Eclipse but that thing is a bit like the antichrist to set up on a windows machine, it drove me nuts yesterday and I'm not sure if I want to rage more just to get a slow IDE which STILL doesn't seem to offer the features I want.
Is there anything like that for R out there?