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Making R available from Excel seems a good idea to ease the transition for newbies (like R commander) but what advantages does the standalone IDE have over RStu

Making R available from Excel seems a good idea to ease the transition for newbies (like R commander) but what advantages does the standalone IDE have over RStudio or the default R.app? Edit: actually I managed to click through to find this screenshot: http://fasterstat.com/Images/Desktop/12_R_gui.png http://fasterstat.com/Images/Desktop/12_R_gui.png which looks novel (can't currently watch the video unfortunately)

fasteRstat 12y ago
graphical user interface for selected packages/functions, support for multiple monitors,...
- jebus989 12y ago
  Both sound good, maybe you could highlight these on your landing page? The picker for RColorBrewer palettes looks particularly handy!
  - fasteRstat 12y ago
    Yes you're right. It's the plane.
    - melling 12y ago
      Typos on page: univerties FasteR - desctop application This tools hepls or as [an] application
      - jamessb 12y ago
        There are several other typos which, whilst trivial, are quite jarring: http://fasterstat.com/Product http://fasterstat.com/Product produsing -> producing poverfull -> powerful http://fasterstat.com/ http://fasterstat.com/ anoher -> another There is also inconsistent use of 'Addin' and 'Add-In'.
      - vkr 12y ago
        The video presents version 1.4.1 (last 10 seconds of the video), the website only lists version 0.4.1. I assume you changed the version number after finishing the video? It was hard/impossible for me to read the R code in the video while playing it at 1080p.
Blahah 12y ago
A major use-case for Excel integration is in finance, where a vast number of analysts - not newbies in any meaningful sense - work in Excel. Giving them access to the power of R from within a familiar environment is a great thing. Recommendation for the developer (if you're not doing this already): market hard to finance businesses. You'll make a killing.
- baldfat 12y ago
  Term newbies in R was what the poster before stated. Personally I would NOT want to have anyone use R with a spreadsheet program. 1) I want manipulated data that is clear to replicate 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet
  - jackmaney 12y ago
    Agreed. 99% of the time, I only use Excel as a CSV viewer (and it's a rather clunky and error-prone CSV viewer at that).
  - Mikeb85 12y ago
    > 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet Knitr for the win! Seriously great package (and integrated nicely into R Studio), I use it for all my reports, presentations, etc...
    - peatmoss 12y ago
      I'm finding myself loving org-babel more and more. I also love knitr, but in comparison org-babel: - Works with just about any language you can imagine, not just R or the few other hypothetically supported languages - Allows me to write in a lightweight Markdown-comparable, LaTeX-augmentable syntax, except org-mode supports internal references. - Lets you do truly obscene things like pass values from bash, to python, to julia, to R As Emacs begins to move more and more to Guile, I hope that the org-* functionality can be instrumented as embeddable libraries. I understand that Emacs isn't for everyone, and thus I wish org-mode (the format) and org-babel were available to the rest of the world. I was surprised to find how few edge-cases aren't better handled by org-* than knitr / RMarkdown.

fasteRstat 12y ago

graphical user interface for selected packages/functions, support for multiple monitors,...

jebus989 12y ago
Both sound good, maybe you could highlight these on your landing page? The picker for RColorBrewer palettes looks particularly handy!
- fasteRstat 12y ago
  Yes you're right. It's the plane.
  - melling 12y ago
    Typos on page: univerties FasteR - desctop application This tools hepls or as [an] application
    - jamessb 12y ago
      There are several other typos which, whilst trivial, are quite jarring: http://fasterstat.com/Product http://fasterstat.com/Product produsing -> producing poverfull -> powerful http://fasterstat.com/ http://fasterstat.com/ anoher -> another There is also inconsistent use of 'Addin' and 'Add-In'.
    - vkr 12y ago
      The video presents version 1.4.1 (last 10 seconds of the video), the website only lists version 0.4.1. I assume you changed the version number after finishing the video? It was hard/impossible for me to read the R code in the video while playing it at 1080p.

Blahah 12y ago

A major use-case for Excel integration is in finance, where a vast number of analysts - not newbies in any meaningful sense - work in Excel. Giving them access to the power of R from within a familiar environment is a great thing. Recommendation for the developer (if you're not doing this already): market hard to finance businesses. You'll make a killing.

baldfat 12y ago
Term newbies in R was what the poster before stated. Personally I would NOT want to have anyone use R with a spreadsheet program. 1) I want manipulated data that is clear to replicate 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet
- jackmaney 12y ago
  Agreed. 99% of the time, I only use Excel as a CSV viewer (and it's a rather clunky and error-prone CSV viewer at that).
- Mikeb85 12y ago
  > 2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet Knitr for the win! Seriously great package (and integrated nicely into R Studio), I use it for all my reports, presentations, etc...
  - peatmoss 12y ago
    I'm finding myself loving org-babel more and more. I also love knitr, but in comparison org-babel: - Works with just about any language you can imagine, not just R or the few other hypothetically supported languages - Allows me to write in a lightweight Markdown-comparable, LaTeX-augmentable syntax, except org-mode supports internal references. - Lets you do truly obscene things like pass values from bash, to python, to julia, to R As Emacs begins to move more and more to Guile, I hope that the org-* functionality can be instrumented as embeddable libraries. I understand that Emacs isn't for everyone, and thus I wish org-mode (the format) and org-babel were available to the rest of the world. I was surprised to find how few edge-cases aren't better handled by org-* than knitr / RMarkdown.