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John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) >>> Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> 1/10/2015 9:46 PM >>> That is what websites are for. Go to rstudio.com and make your own judgment . I have found that they provide much useful functionality above and beyond R's bare bones GUI. Bert On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Could someone kindly enlighten me whether there are currently advantages > to use R Studio vs. the normal R GUI? On the Mac I can't seem to find > anything compelling, on Windows (which I don't use myself) I noticed last > year that there seems to be no syntax highlighting available for the R GUI > but R Studio had it. > > Surely there must be some value proposition in that project, what am I > missing? > > Thanks, > Boris > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and > more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.