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RStudio vs Sublime Text: What are the differences?

Key Differences between RStudio and Sublime Text

RStudio and Sublime Text are two popular text editors commonly used by developers for coding. While both tools serve the purpose of writing and editing code, there are several key differences that set them apart.

1. Integration with R: RStudio is designed specifically for the R programming language, providing built-in support for R projects, packages, and functions. It offers a comprehensive set of tools for data analysis, visualization, and debugging within the R environment. On the other hand, Sublime Text is a general-purpose text editor that can be customized to support various programming languages including R, but it does not have the same level of built-in integration and features as RStudio.

2. User Interface and Features: RStudio has a user-friendly and intuitive interface that is tailored for data analysis and programming in R. It provides multiple panes for code editing, console output, plots, and other helpful tools. RStudio also includes features like autocompletion, code snippets, and version control integration. Sublime Text, on the other hand, has a minimalistic interface that can be customized extensively using plugins. It offers advanced features like multiple selections, powerful search and replace, and a wide range of text editing capabilities.

3. Development Environment: RStudio provides a complete development environment for R, with integrated tools for package development, documentation, and collaboration. It has a dedicated package manager and offers seamless integration with version control systems like Git. Sublime Text, on the other hand, is a lightweight text editor that focuses on speed and efficiency. It does not have extensive built-in tools for development tasks and relies more on community-created plugins for additional functionality.

4. Cost and Licensing: RStudio is available as both a free open-source version (RStudio Desktop) and a commercial version with additional features (RStudio Server Pro). The open-source version offers most of the basic functionality required for R programming. Sublime Text, on the other hand, is a paid software with a trial version available for evaluation. Users need to purchase a license for continued usage, although the trial version does not have any time limitations.

5. Community and Support: RStudio has a vibrant and active community of R users and developers, providing extensive resources, tutorials, and forums for support. The support for R-related issues is readily available. Sublime Text also has a large user base and an active developer community, but the focus of the community is more on general programming and plugin development rather than specific languages like R.

6. Platform Compatibility: RStudio is available for multiple platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux, ensuring cross-platform compatibility. Sublime Text, similarly, is compatible with all major operating systems. Both tools provide a consistent experience across different platforms.

In summary, RStudio is a specialized IDE for the R programming language, providing extensive features, integration, and support for R-related tasks. Sublime Text, on the other hand, is a general-purpose text editor that can be customized for various programming languages, offering flexibility and high performance.

Decisions about RStudio and Sublime Text
Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views

Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

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Andrey Ginger
Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · | 3 upvotes · 487.5K views

Since communication with Github is not necessary, the Atom is less convenient in working with text and code. Sublim's support and understanding of projects is best for us. Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface. We use a good theme for Sublim ayu-dark

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Simon Ibssa
Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · | 2 upvotes · 1.2M views

I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!

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Pros of RStudio
Pros of Sublime Text
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    Visual editor for R Markdown documents
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    In-line code execution using blocks
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    Can be themed
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    In-line graphing support
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    Latex support
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    Sophitiscated statistical packages
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    Supports Rcpp, python and SQL
  • 720
    Lightweight
  • 652
    Plugins
  • 641
    Super fast
  • 468
    Great code editor
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    Cross platform
  • 280
    Nice UI
  • 260
    Unlimited trial
  • 153
    Cmd + d is the best command ever
  • 92
    Great community
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    Package control, modules
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    Mac OS X support
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    Easy to get started with
  • 22
    Monokai
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    Everything you need without the bloat
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    Built in Python
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    Easy
  • 14
    Speed
  • 12
    Session & edit resuming
  • 10
    Package Control
  • 9
    Well Designed
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    Multiple selections
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    ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
  • 7
    Nice
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    Fast, simple and lightweight
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    It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
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    So futuristic and convenient
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    ALT + F3 the best command ever
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    Great
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    Find anything fast within entire project
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    Easy to use
  • 4
    Free
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    Simple and clean design
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    Hackable
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    Pretty
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    UI + plugins
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    Sublime Merge (Git Integration)
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    Totally customizable
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    Color schemes and cmd+d
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    Material theme best theme forever
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    Const

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Cons of RStudio
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    • 8
      Steep learning curve
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      Everything
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      Flexibility to move file
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      Number of plugins doing the same thing
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      Doesn't act like a Mac app
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      Not open sourced
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      Don't have flutter integration
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      Forces you to buy license

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    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.

    What is Sublime Text?

    Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

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