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RStudio vs Vim: What are the differences?

What is 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..

What is Vim? Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

RStudio can be classified as a tool in the "Integrated Development Environment" category, while Vim is grouped under "Text Editor".

According to the StackShare community, Vim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 850 company stacks & 890 developers stacks; compared to RStudio, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

Pros of RStudio

Pros of Vim

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Sophitiscated statistical packages
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Visual editor for R Markdown documents
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Supports Rcpp, python and SQL
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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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Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
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Fast
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Highly configurable
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Less mouse dependence
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Lightweight
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Speed
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Plugins
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Hardcore
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It's for pros
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Vertically split windows
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Open-source
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Modal editing
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No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
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It stood the Test of Time
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Unicode
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Everything is on the keyboard
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Stick with terminal
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VimPlugins
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Dotfiles
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Flexible Indenting
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Programmable
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Efficient and powerful
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Large number of Shortcuts
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Hands stay on the keyboard
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Everywhere
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A chainsaw for text editing
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Because its not Emacs
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You cannot exit
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Modal editing changes everything
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Unmatched productivity
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Themes
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Developer speed
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Super fast
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Makes you a true bearded developer
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Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
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Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
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Intergrated into most editors
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Habit
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EasyMotion
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Great on large text files
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Intuitive, once mastered
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Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
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Shortcuts
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Perfect command line editor

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Cons of RStudio

Cons of Vim

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Ugly UI
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Hard to learn

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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 Vim?

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

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Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

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.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Anaconda

A free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system conda.

MATLAB

Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java.

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