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After a couple of minutes on their website I still can't figure out what advantage this offers over using RStudio as an IDE and/or running scripts with the default CRAN R installation.

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Hi, I one of the creators. From GitHub page: R Suite an R package which together with R Suite CLI tool enables you to design deployment workflow that fits you and makes R your primary data science platform. It has beed developed by WLOG Solutions company to make their development and deployment data science process robust.

R Suite gives answers to the following challenges for any R based software and data science solution:

- Isolated and reproducible projects with controlled dependencies and configuration.

- Separation of business, infrastructural and domain logic.

- Package based solution development.

- Management of custom CRAN-alike repositories.

- Automation of deployment package preparation.

- Flawless integration with Docker.

- Development process integrated with version control system (currently git and svn).

- Working in internetless environments.

My job is pretty much only writing R code and managing R models running in production. I still don't understand what your product offers that I don't already have, or how it achieves what it claims to achieve. Copying and pasting the sales pitch from your website didn't clear things up for me.

A more helpful pitch would indeed to compare RSuite vs RStudio in terms of features and what it does best vs the alternatives. I agree that the explanation about the project is pretty bad and it does make the "here are the kind of problems you have and how we solve it" very tangible.

To make this discussion better you should tell more about your development and deployment process. This includes definition of the project you use.

If you really solved:

>isolated and reproducible projects with controlled dependencies and configuration.

... that would be huge. Sticking it in docker containers is also a decent idea.

Thanks for writing it, and pay no mind to ding dongs on here who can't be bothered to learn the language and its tooling, but sure do have an opinion on the topic.

Check for yourself if our solution works for you. We use it on a daily basis. But reproducibility is not the only thing. The most important was to have a project for R.

Only read the headlines. My understanding is that they have version control of packages (something to the effect of a virtual environment, but maybe with a completely different approach)

It goes deeper. We were lacking definition of R project. Pkgs management is part of project management.

You might find this package useful for pkg management problem https://github.com/robertzk/lockbox

After a few minutes I can't even tell what problems this is supposed to solve or if it is even related to solving an IDE problem... the actual site starts with bullet points that describe the product, but not what problems it solves:

" - Open source with Enteprise [sic] support.

- Designed to separate..."

The very first bullet point has a typo so maybe this isn't very mature yet?

Thanks for finding typo. It is mature. We have used it to deploy R to big players. And use it for our consulting services everyday.

Check docs (https://rsuite.io/RSuite_Tutorial.php) and examples (e.g.https://github.com/WLOGSolutions/RSuite-examples )

Not yet tried but open source ... free ...

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