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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
- Visual editor for R Markdown documents2
- In-line code execution using blocks2
- Can be themed1
- In-line graphing support1
- Latex support1
- Sophitiscated statistical packages1
- Supports Rcpp, python and SQL1
Pros of Vim
- Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)344
- Fast326
- Highly configurable312
- Less mouse dependence295
- Lightweight245
- Speed144
- Plugins99
- Hardcore95
- It's for pros80
- Vertically split windows65
- Open-source28
- Modal editing25
- No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor22
- It stood the Test of Time21
- Unicode16
- Dotfiles12
- Stick with terminal12
- VimPlugins12
- Everything is on the keyboard12
- Flexible Indenting11
- Programmable10
- Hands stay on the keyboard9
- Large number of Shortcuts9
- Efficient and powerful9
- A chainsaw for text editing8
- Everywhere8
- Unmatched productivity8
- Because its not Emacs7
- Developer speed7
- Super fast7
- Modal editing changes everything7
- Themes6
- You cannot exit6
- Makes you a true bearded developer6
- Great on large text files5
- Shortcuts5
- Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc5
- EasyMotion5
- Most and most powerful plugins of any editor5
- Intergrated into most editors5
- Habit5
- Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd5
- Intuitive, once mastered4
- Perfect command line editor3
- Not MicroSoft1
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Cons of RStudio
Cons of Vim
- Ugly UI8
- Hard to learn5
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