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The killer feature of RStudio for me is RMarkdown.

I composed almost all my homeworks in grad school using RMarkdown in RStudio. You get LaTeX whenever you need it, code (I usually use it for R or Julia), and markdown for ordinary text. The kable function renders tables nicely from data frames and ggplot2 creates beautiful plots.

Mathematica and Jupyter have a few advantages, but overall I'm very happy with RStudio.

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RMarkdown in RStudio was the killer feature, until the VSCode R extension matured. Not only does it support RMarkdown, it adds a ton of features RStudio doesn't have and runs a lot faster. https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/R-Markdown

For my uses, it replaced RStudio 100% of the time.

Thanks for the link! Is it possible to display plots inline like in notebooks? (The screenshot shows a plot in a preview pane.)

Unfortunately no. (tbh I don't like that feature in RStudio anyways: it makes it longer to scroll through large notebooks, and ggsave is better at rendering charts than R's native rendering)

For knitting, you can use Markdown image links.

Thanks for letting me know.

Can you use quarto in vscode? It's the next magic from Posit.co

Yes, quarto has native support for VSCode: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/hello/vscode.html

There isn't much advantage to using it over RMarkdown for R, IMO.

That's a lot of prerequisites for something that just works in rstudio.

It takes 5-10 minutes to set up the dependencies.

I'll give it a try, your work has been an inspiration in the past so I trust your good taste!

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