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Jupyter vs RStudio: What are the differences?

Jupyter: Multi-language interactive computing environments. The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media; RStudio: Open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R community. An integrated development environment for R, with a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution Publish and distribute data products across your organization. One button deployment of Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Collections of R functions, data, and compiled code in a well-defined format. You can expand the types of analyses you do by adding packages..

Jupyter can be classified as a tool in the "Data Science Notebooks" category, while RStudio is grouped under "Integrated Development Environment".

Jupyter is an open source tool with 5.99K GitHub stars and 2.54K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jupyter's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Jupyter has a broader approval, being mentioned in 76 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to RStudio, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Pros of Jupyter
Pros of RStudio
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    In-line code execution using blocks
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    In-line graphing support
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    Can be themed
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    Multiple kernel support
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    Best web-browser IDE for Python
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    Export to python code
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    LaTex Support
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    HTML export capability
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    Multi-user with Kubernetes
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    Visual editor for R Markdown documents
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    In-line code execution using blocks
  • 1
    Can be themed
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    In-line graphing support
  • 1
    Latex support
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    Sophitiscated statistical packages
  • 1
    Supports Rcpp, python and SQL

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What is Jupyter?

The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media.

What is RStudio?

An integrated development environment for R, with a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution. Publish and distribute data products across your organization. One button deployment of Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Collections of R functions, data, and compiled code in a well-defined format. You can expand the types of analyses you do by adding packages.

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