I started a small survey in the LinkedIn group "The R Project for Statistical Computing" about #RKWard. The results so far:
Turns out that 83 % don't know it and
circa 8 % use it.
There were 139 people who participated in the survey. Given that RKWard is among the oldest #rstats IDEs and GUIs [1], it is somewhat surprising. I suppose we should improve the advertising of our tool.
@devSJR I admit, I’ve not used it in several years. In the mid-00s I used it heavily and then moved to RStudio as I moved away from Linux to Mac around the time RStudio debuted. I know there’s a Mac port. One thing that I found as I became more advanced using R was I needed the IDE more than the GUI. Time to take another look and see what you’ve been up to.
@adamhsparks@devSJR The only R environments I've ever used are Jupyter R notebooks and Rstudio (apart from running some quick stuff from command line in a container with the R command.)
I was able to connect vscode to JupyterHub, though, but I've never actually really used vscode like this beyond proving that I could connect it to JupyterHub and do some basic things with it.
@adamhsparks@devSJR I guess the ironic thing there is Rstudio via JupyterHub has helped us move stuff more to Linux that used to run on Windows (lab machines and RDP based shared environs).
@schluff
That is indeed the case. #RStudio is an excellent product that makes things easier, especially if you start with R stats. However, at conferences and other occasions (e.g., my lectures), I observe that people think R == RStudio.
In my LinkedIn post, I also mentioned the R GUI/IDE comparisons that Rob Muenchen does (https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/01/a-comparative-review-of-the-r-instat-gui-for-r/). There are so many GUIs out there. For example, have you ever heard about #Bio7 (https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v049.i04)? All these tools are not really promoted.
@schluff I tested it a while ago. #esquisse for #rstats was working. Just checked. Works for me in #Kubuntu. Haven't tried in #Debian. The #webkit version is the most likely issue indeed.
@devSJR you might want to join the #kde-promo:kde.org room and ask for help. We recently promoted rkward on https://kde.org/for/scientists but we could promote it more and in more places.
Hey @carlschwan. I have seen that promo. Thanks to the team. Indeed, we at @rkward should get more in touch with the #kde-promo:kde.org, This would be a matrix room?
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