An alternative to Rstudio? Make your own R IDE: integrated development environment (CC182)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2022-01-27

RStudio is the primary R integrated development environment that people learn and work in. Are there alternatives to this iconic program? Why would you want to leave RStudio? The two primary reasons are a need to work with R in an environment where you don't have a graphical interface (e.g., on an HPC) or when you need to automate the running of your code. This Code Club will show you how you can run R from the command line and find tools to replace your favorite functionality from RStudio. This is part of a series of videos demonstrating how to functions from base R to make these data compatible with tools from the tidyverse

You can find my blog post for this episode at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2022-01-27-command-line-r

The data were generated in our Kozich et al. 2013 paper (http://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01043-13) using samples from the Schloss et al. 2012 paper (http://doi.org/10.4161/gmic.21008).

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0:00 Creating your own R integrated development environment
3:15 Running R from the command line
5:10 Quitting R from the command line
5:37 Running R scripts from the command line
6:01 Find a text editor: nano, vim, emacs, atom, bbedit, sublime, visual studio code
8:55 Integrating version control into a text editor
10:16 Working with figures from outside RStudio
11:16 Getting help from within R at the command line
12:12 Installing and updating packages
13:07 RStudio server