Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Second Edition

Code editors and IDEs

The Windows and OSX versions of R both come with built-in code editors, which allow code to be edited, saved, and sent to the R console. It's hard to recommend that you use this because it is rather primitive. Most users would be best served by RStudio (rstudio.com/), which includes project management and version control (including support for Git, which is covered in Chapter 7, Sharing Your Creations), viewing of data and graphics, code completion, package management, and many other features. The following is an illustrative screenshot of an RStudio session:

As can be seen, in the top-left corner, there is the code editing ...