RStudio’s an IDE or integrated development environment. This means that RStudio brings together all the tools you might want to use in a single place. RStudio is built specifically for use with R language.

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RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) specifically designed for use with the R programming language. RStudio offers you a single workspace where you can use R for all phases of the data analysis process.

RStudio is currently a very popular way to not only write your R scripts but also to interact with the R software. To function correctly, RStudio needs R and therefore both need to be installed on your computer.

The four panes in RStudio are Source Editor, Console, Environment and Files. The Source Editor is also called the Viewer when you are viewing a dataset in the spreadsheet-style format of rows, columns and cells. You execute commands in the Console. You write code that your later can save to a file in the Source Editor pane. The Environment pane manages loaded data. The Files pane has tabs that also shows Plots, Packages, Help, Viewer and Presentation.

If you want to clear the console in RStudio, just like cls clears the command prompt in Windows, use Ctrl+L.

Learning R

Check out the online book R for Data Science.