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RStudio Is Gone
Welcome back! RStudio used to be one of my favorite IDE’s to use, this was mostly due to the variable explorer within RStudio, however, this IDE is now being removed! Why? Well, the RStudio team is now going to move away from focusing in on an IDE revolved around R, and more so create an IDE that anybody can use for other programming languages as well.
This specific news came from their website, the title of that article was “RStudio is becoming Posit”:
You can check out this blog below:
For the past few years, RStudio supported Python development, however, it looks like the RStudio naming was kind of making people confused, because of this, the RStudio team probably wanted to remove the focus around only the R language, and get into other languages as well.
Personally, I’m excited about this change, I loved using RStudio, and even though I do most of my development work now within Jupyter Notebooks, it’s still…