I requested an academic copy of the Revolution R Enterprise today. Since they only have Windows or Redhat version, I installed it on an old spare machine dual-booting Linux and Windows. I like what they did with the IDE (the debugger is nice) and some of their tailored made packages dealing with large data and parallel processing. It should be a good choice to introduce R to students. I guess I am not surprised to see the Windows version is made using MS Visual Studio, but having to install a load of VS-related stuff just to install this relatively simple software (with respect to the GUI, of course) make me feel a little, ...unhappy.
I think this is a serious alternative (for the first time) to the "official" R on Windows platform. And Revolution is generous to let faculty and students to use their software for free. If I decide to teach my students R, this software is absolutely my first choice.
By the way, I was not able to get the package "MCMCglmm" running because the required package "tensorA" is not in their official repository, and the version I pulled off CRAN is no good.
============== UPDATES (SEPT. 11, 2010) ========================
The problem with MCMCglmm seems to be fixed for the W32 system: the package "tensorA" was added to the official repository so I can run my favorite package for mixed effect modeling now. I still cannot use it on Win64 system.
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If I remember correctly, the installation in linux was quite painless.
They have a version for Redhat, so it should be painless if Redhat is your distro-of-choice. For others...I am not sure.
For teaching, we prefer JJ Allaire's RStudio (server side R
running in the cloud, talking to the browser)
It looks interesting (http://lists.stat.ucla.edu/pipermail/statcompute/attachments/20100603/1c8659eb/attachment-0001.png)! I did some google search but did not find any details of this software. Could you please provide more details? Thanks.
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