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It's ok R, we still love you for diagrams. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I like and despise R... WHY DO I HAVE TO COPY THE TEXT FROM MY CONSOLE INTO A SCRIPT TO ACTUALLY SAVE IT AS AN .R FILE????

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's a console, not an IDE. But I see your frustration and does seem ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maan, I am way too much of a himbo chemical engineering student yo understand what IDE means, had to channel my inner parent and ask a software guy for help

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am currently arguing with par() and coming back here to shitpost when I get too angry.

EDIT: OMG https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56497422/using-jupyter-r-kernel-with-visual-studio-code finally an IDE with SENSE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You don't really have to. You could save the workspace along with the history of you commands to load it at a later time, and never have a script at all.

The reason nobody really does that (except maybe if they use R once in every decade) is that it's not really viable in the middle-term. That is because it doesn't distinguish between failed attempts and actual, final code and so quickly becomes a mess.