The Idea
It is useful to have your R commands in an environment where:
- You can easily save what you have done
- Copy blocks of commands and then modify them
- Highlight a block of code and send it to R to be executed.
Recommendation
The environment that is fast becoming the standard is:
Other environments
There are several other such projects with varying degrees of convenience. Two of the most popular are:
Tinn-R — see the TinnR package on CRAN.
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