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The UI is obviously inspired by Rstudio for R. And I have zero objections to that; this is something that I've wanted for awhile, after having difficulty with PyCharm for my Python-related data projects. I'll play around with it a bit.

As a heads up, the setup workflow assumes you are on OS X, which may be a problem if it asks you to open a Terminal on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/nya50e4.png

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I realized the download on Linux is massive, though (600+ Mb) - why is that? R and RStudio combined weigh way less than that.

Plus, for distributing binaries in Linux, instead of a zip file (tar.gz would be more common, too) it's better to support the main distros with a repository (PPA for Ubuntu, pacman for Arch, etc...) since it's way more user friendly every single time you want them to stay up to date.

hey minimaxir, the commands should still work if you have python and/or conda installed. if you have any issues you can post here: https://github.com/yhat/rodeo/issues.

thanks for trying it out!

That works for the pip command. Since people who analyze data may not necessarily be experts at the command line, I recommend relooking at this workflow.

matplotlib, however, fails to install completely with this method on Windows for subtle reasons. Filed: https://github.com/yhat/rodeo/issues/204

The documentation just points to a blog article on how to install matplotlib on Windows.

Funny enough, I traded in Rstudio for Jupyter notebooks for R, especially for demos to other people since it is much easier to see tables, graphs and such.

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