R IDE

DISCLAIMER

R IDE in CoCalc is the open source edition of RStudio. Posit Software, PBC is in no way associated with CoCalc.

There are a number of ways to use R in CoCalc.

Collaborative X11 Application

You can create X11 Graphical Desktop, then click R IDE in the application list at the bottom left and wait about 20 seconds. The advantage is real-time collaboration just as with any other X11 application, but the response time may be slow.

Notebook Server

Click on the Servers / Notebook Servers tab and launch R IDE :

Compute Server

If you need more powerful compute resources, use Compute Servers with R Statistics image. Here CoCalc’s CEO and Founder William Stein explains how to run it:

Other Ways

You can also use R in CoCalc via:

Jupyter notebooks with the R kernel. See Jupyter Kernels.
Creating a file ending in .r and running it. You can keep your source file in one pane with a Linux terminal beside it to run the program. See Terminal Environment in Split Frame with File Editor.
R Markdown (Rmd file).
Knitr (rnw or Rtex file).
Sage worksheet with R (sagews file and “%r” mode). See Custom “Mode Commands” in Sage Worksheets under Sage Worksheets.