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RStudio 0.93 Beta Available

In case you miseed, 0.93 Beta of RStudio is released! A good set of fixes, including vignette() (sorry edit() not compatible yet). The panel layout is fully customizable, and there are a load of bug fixes. See the Release Notes for more info.

RStudio 0.92.44 Release: Try It! You’ll Be Surprised!

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I recently downloaded RStudio’s v0.92.44 release, and, I must say, it’s light! I think I could even run it on a netbook, which is great for analysis on-the-go. I’ll likely uninstall Eclipse-StatET at this point and go with RStudio . Not only is it light, but the layout and features are exactly what I wanted from an R app.   Here’s a screen shot (click for full size) (FIXED) : If you haven’t given this a try, I highly recommend you do. It runs on all popular platforms, and uses the Qt widget library. Although I’m not a fanboy of Qt, this is one case where Qt seems to really shine. RStudio can be downloaded here .

R, the DJIA, and M1 Money Multiplier (MULT)

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Description: My explorations with the FRED (St Louis Financial Reserve Database) in R have yielded some interesting plots, charts and graphs . And some questions…