On May 19 and 20, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his two day Master R Developer Workshop in the centrally located European city of Amsterdam. This is the first time we’ve offered Hadley’s workshop in Europe. It’s a rare chance to learn from Hadley in person. Only 3 public Master R Developer Workshop classes are offered per year and no future classes in Europe are planned at this time for 2016 or 2017. Read more →

We’re pleased to announce that a new release of RStudio (v0.99.878) is available for download now. Highlights of this release include: Support for registering custom RStudio Addins. R Markdown editing improvements including outline view and inline UI for chunk execution. Support for multiple source windows (tear editor tabs off main window). Pane zooming for working distraction free within a single pane. Editor and IDE keyboard shortcuts can now be customized. Read more →

On May 19 and 20, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his two day Master R Developer Workshop in the centrally located European city of Amsterdam. Are you ready to upgrade your R skills? Register soon to secure your seat. For the convenience of those who may travel to the workshop, it will be held at the Hotel NH Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Hadley teaches a few workshops each year and this is the only one planned for Europe. Read more →

Are you ready to upgrade your R skills? Register soon to secure your seat. On January 28 and 29, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his popular Master R Developer Workshop at the Westin San Francisco Airport. The workshop is offered only 3 times a year and the San Francisco class is already nearly 50% full. This is the only Master R Developer Workshop Hadley is planning for the US West Coast in 2016. Read more →

The RStudio IDE is bursting with capabilities and features. Do you know how to use them all? Tomorrow, we begin an “RStudio Essentials” webinar series. This will be the perfect way to learn how to use the IDE to its fullest. The series is broken into six sections always on a Wednesday at 11 a.m. EDT: Programming Part 1 (Writing code in RStudio) - December 2nd Programming Part 2 (Debugging code in RStudio) - December 9th Read more →

RStudio will again teach the new essentials for doing (big) data science in R at this year’s Strata NYC conference, September 29 2015 (http://strataconf.com/big-data-conference-ny-2015/public/schedule/detail/44154). You will learn from Garrett Grolemund, Yihui Xie, and Nathan Stephens who are all working on fascinating new ways to keep the R ecosystem apace of the challenges facing those who work with data. Topics include: R Quickstart: Wrangle, transform, and visualize data Instructor: Garrett Grolemund (90 minutes) Read more →

Traditionally, the mechanisms for obtaining R and related software have used standard HTTP connections. This isn’t ideal though, as without a secure (HTTPS) connection there is less assurance that you are downloading code from a legitimate source rather than from another server posing as one. Recently there have been a number of changes that make it easier to use HTTPS for installing R, RStudio, and packages from CRAN: Downloads of R from the main CRAN website now use HTTPS; Read more →

Today’s guest post is written by Vincent Warmerdam of GoDataDriven and is reposted with Vincent’s permission from blog.godatadriven.com. You can learn more about how to use SparkR with RStudio at the 2015 EARL Conference in Boston November 2-4, where Vincent will be speaking live. This document contains a tutorial on how to provision a spark cluster with RStudio. You will need a machine that can run bash scripts and a functioning account on AWS. Read more →

“Master” R in Washington DC this September! Join RStudio Chief Data Scientist Hadley Wickham at the AMA – Executive Conference Center in Arlington, VA on September 14 and 15, 2015 for this rare opportunity to learn from one of the R community’s most popular and innovative authors and package developers. It will be at least another year before Hadley returns to teach his class on the East Coast, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn from him in person. Read more →

We’re pleased to announce that the final version of RStudio v0.99 is available for download now. Highlights of the release include: A new data viewer with support for large datasets, filtering, searching, and sorting. Complete overhaul of R code completion with many new features and capabilities. The source editor now provides code diagnostics (errors, warnings, etc.) as you work. User customizable code snippets for automating common editing tasks. Read more →