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Evolving notes, images and sounds by Luis Apiolaza

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Anyone using other than RStudio?

I asked both in Mastodon and Twitter “Anyone using other than #RStudio as their main #rstats IDE?” and—knowing that some programmers are literal and would probably reply ‘Yes’—I added “What is it?”

Of course I got a few replies like “I only have used RStudio” (Why reply?) or “I use RStudio but in docker containers” (Still RStudio). I also received mostly helpful answers, with some of the usual suspects and a more esoteric option:

  • The most popular alternative was Visual Studio Code using the R Extension for Visual Studio Code plugin together with the languageserver R package.
  • Neovim together with the Nvim-R plugin.
  • Emacs (or one of its variants) + ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics).

On the esoteric side Spacemacs (Emacs + layers of configuration), or an unholy combination of Emacs with Vim keybindings.

Any of these options will let you use Rmarkdown or Quarto if you are into that.

P.S. I focused on crossplatform options (I tend to move a lot), but a comment in Mastodon mentioned a Windows-only option that could be useful for a few people: Notepad++ together with the NppToR utility.

Infrequent doesn’t disprove

There is no logical warrant for considering an event known to occur in a given hypothesis, even if infrequently, as disproving the hypothesis.

Joseph Berkson in “Tests of significance considered as evidence”. Journal of the American Statistical Association 37: 325-335.

I’m not a content creator

I struggle with the word “content”—as used in “content creator” or “content producer”—to refer to creative endeavours. Content as something included or contained into a blank space. Content as fungible filler, writing, sounds, images that can be easily (unnoticeably) replaced with something else.

“Content” diminishes creation. As an amateur I create writings, pictures, code and sounds for the sake of it, because I love (amare) doing it. Likely it is not at the same level as a professional who does it for a living, but these activities are a part of me.

“Content” reduces creation to units of commercial exchange, which are the opposite of why I, and probably many people, spend time creating and sharing what I do.

I’m a creator, but not of content, and I share my creations for free.

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