[R] R vs. RStudio?

[Richard M. Heiberger]

I have this in my .Rprofile

setHook(packageEvent("grDevices", "onLoad"),
        function(...) grDevices::quartz.options(height=6.7))
## for the MacBook Air, the default height=7 puts the legend below the
bottom of the screen

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/01/2015 12:00 PM, C W wrote:
>> I use R on Mac, and I use RStudio on Windows.  That's my opinion.
>>
>> I have one problem.
>>
>> When I use R on Mac. The function plot() gives a graph that's cut off.
>>
>> For example, try
>>
>> plot(rnorm(100)
>>
>> I believe there should be space below "index" on x-axis.
>>
>> Why is that?
>>
>
> This may depend on the size of your display.  The default window is too
> big to fit on the display of a small laptop, so it is cut off at the
> bottom:  but the Mac doesn't show it as being cut off, it shows the full
> border, and cuts off the contents, so it looks a little strange.  I'm
> not sure if this is by intention or a bug; you could ask on the
> R-sig-mac list if you really care.  When you resize the window the OS
> realizes that you really want to see the whole thing, and it shrinks it.
>
> You can probably use quartz.options() to change the default size and
> avoid the above problem.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Fraser D. Neiman <fneiman at monticello.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In my experience, another negative to RStudio is its performance  when
>>> trying to access  code or data files on a remote server over a VPN
>>> connection -- even modest files can take minutes to load and sometimes
>>> crash the session.
>>>
>>> The native R GUI seems to handle this better and I often am forced to use
>>> it when working remotely. But there is enough other good stuff in RStudio
>>> to make this a bummer.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Fraser
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:31 AM
>>> To: Boris Steipe; R mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?
>>>
>>> On 10/01/2015 9:22 PM, Boris Steipe wrote:
>>>> Could someone kindly enlighten me whether there are currently advantages
>>> to use R Studio vs. the normal R GUI? On the Mac I can't seem to find
>>> anything compelling, on Windows (which I don't use myself) I noticed last
>>> year that there seems to be no syntax highlighting available for the R GUI
>>> but R Studio had it.
>>>>
>>>> Surely there must be some value proposition in that project, what am I
>>> missing?
>>>
>>> I find several advantages, and one or two disadvantages.
>>>
>>>  - The debugger is nicer.  You can set breakpoints in the code editor and
>>> it installs them in the right place.
>>>
>>>  - It has lots of support for things like Sweave, knitr, rmarkdown, etc.
>>>
>>>  - It is easy to switch between different projects.
>>>
>>>  - It looks the same on all platforms, so if you switch platforms you
>>> still know what you're doing.
>>>
>>> Negatives:
>>>
>>>  - I don't like the tiled display.  I find it doesn't give me enough space.
>>>
>>>  - At least until recently, I haven't checked with the latest release, it
>>> converts files to the native format, i.e. saving a file on Windows gives
>>> you CR LF line endings, doing it elsewhere converts them to LF.
>>> This is really irritating when files get changed for no good reason.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
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