RStudio v0.98 Preview (Debugging Tools and More)

2013-09-24 RStudio Team

We’re very pleased to announce that a preview release of RStudio IDE v0.98 is available for download now. Major highlights of the new release include debugging tools, many improvements to environment/workspace browsing, and a new way to create HTML5 presentations using R Markdown. As usual there are also many small improvements and bug fixes. We’ll talk about some of the more interesting new features below, otherwise check out the release notes for full details. Read more →

Packages

RStudio and Rcpp

2012-11-29 RStudio Team

Earlier this month a new version of the Rcpp package by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain François was released to CRAN and today we’re excited to announce a new version of RStudio that integrates tightly with Rcpp. First though more about some exciting new features in Rcpp 0.10.1. This release includes Rcpp attributes, which are simple annotations that you add to C++ source files to streamline calling C++ from R. This makes it possible to write C++ functions and simply source them into R just as you’d source an R script. Read more →

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New version of RStudio (v0.97)

2012-11-01 RStudio Team

Today a new version of RStudio (v0.97) is available for download from our website. The principal focus of this release was creating comprehensive tools for R package development. We also implemented many other frequently requested enhancements including a new Vim editing mode and a much improved Find and Replace pane. Here’s a summary of what’s new in the release: Package Development A new Build tab with package development commands and a view of build output and errors Read more →

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RStudio v0.96.225 Update

2012-05-24 RStudio Team

There’s an updated release of RStudio v0.96 available that includes some small enhancements and bugfixes, including: Comment/uncomment for Sweave and LaTeX Additional in-product documentation for R Markdown Offline support for MathJax previews More flexible handling of MathJax inline equations The release notes include a full list all of the changes. We’ve also published some additional documentation on using the new code folding and code sections features. Read more →

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New Version of RStudio (v0.96)

2012-05-14 RStudio Team

Today a new version of RStudio (v0.96) is available for download from our website. The main focus of this release is improved tools for authoring, reproducible research, and web publishing. This means lots of new Sweave features as well as tight integration with the knitr package (including support for creating dynamic web reports with the new R Markdown and R HTML formats). We’ve also added some other frequently requested editing features including code folding. Read more →

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RStudio v0.95 Released

2012-01-25 RStudio Team

The final version of RStudio v0.95 is now available for download from our website (thanks to everyone who put the preview release through its paces over the last couple of weeks!). Highlights of the new release include: Projects — A new system for managing R projects that enables easy switching between working directories and per-project contexts for source documents, workspaces, and history. Code Navigation — Typeahead navigation by file or function name (Ctrl+. Read more →

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RStudio v0.95 Preview Available

2012-01-10 RStudio Team

The next version of RStudio (v0.95) is now available as a preview release. Highlights include: Projects – A new system for managing R projects that enables easy switching between working directories, running multiple instances of RStudio with different projects, and per-project contexts for source documents, workspaces, and history. Code Navigation – Typeahead navigation by file or function name (Ctrl+.) and the ability to navigate directly to the definition of any function (F2 or Ctrl+Click). Read more →

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RStudio Update

2011-10-27 RStudio Team

With R 2.14 slated to be released next week we wanted to encourage everyone planning to upgrade to also update to the latest release of RStudio (v0.94.110). For R 2.14 users this release includes tweaks related to compatibility with the R 2.14 graphics engine as well as compatibility with the new parallel package. There are also a number of other bug fixes which make this a worthwhile update even for users not running R 2. Read more →

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RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94)

2011-06-14 RStudio Team

RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94) is available for download today. The goal for this release was to refine and improve our core features based on the feedback we’ve gotten on our first two betas. Highlights of the new release include: Source editor enhancements — New editor features include brace/paren/quote matching, more intelligent cursor placement after newlines, function navigation, regex find and replace, run to/from the current line, and a command to re-run the last code region. Read more →

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RStudio Beta 2 (v0.93)

2011-04-11 RStudio Team

RStudio Beta 2 (v0.93) is available for download today. We’ve gotten incredibly helpful input from the R community and this release reflects a lot of that feedback. The release notes have the full details on what’s new. Some of the highlights include: Source Editor Enhancements Highlight all instances of selected text Insert spaces for tabs (soft-tabs) Customizable print margin line Selected line highlight Toggle line numbers on/off Read more →