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When comparing RKWard vs StatET , the Slant community recommends RKWard for most people. In the question“What are the best R IDEs?” RKWard is ranked 4th while StatET is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose RKWard is:
Available in the OS repository (at least for openSUSE).
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Pros
Pro KDE native
Available in the OS repository (at least for openSUSE).
Pro Cross-platform and easy to use
Pro Very flexible and snappy UI
Pro Can be extended by own plugins
Pro Good integration with Git via the eGit add-in
Far better than the Git integration that RStudio offers
Pro Very good object browser
Much more powerful than the meager object browser that RStudio has in its "environment pane".
Pro Integrated view of files and projects in one pane
Makes life easier. Again, unlike RStudio.
Pro Compareison or replace with previous versions
Pro Search in multiple folder
This is very handy when developing an R package.
Pro More text panes with clear tabs
Much easier than RStudio.
Cons
Con The development version has support for RMarkdown
Con Lack of notebook with R markdown
This is a nice feature from RStudio that I miss.
Con Newest version doesn't work
Sometimes the newest version does not work since rj and rj.gd packages are not updated.