R IDEs & Tools

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This page lists the IDEs and editors commonly used for R, with a link to each product’s official page. RStudio is the long-established R-focused IDE, Positron is its newer multi-language successor, and VS Code is an alternative for those who already use it.

IDEs

  • RStudio — the Posit IDE for R, with a console, script editor, plots, environment viewer and package tools.

  • Positron — Posit’s next-generation data science IDE for R and Python, built on the VS Code foundation.

Editors with extensions

See also