Nice RIDE

Do you like it when your life gets a lot better completely out of the blue? You probably do. That's the feeling I had when I discovered RStudio, a new (and free) IDE designed especially for R. I've never heard of it being in the works, hence the pleasant surprise. RStudio works really well and is pretty slick. But the absolute best of it for me is that it makes it so easy to use LaTeX due to the fact that it lets you compile Sweave documents directly into PDFs, with just one click. It's godsent, really. It's so great to have your output updated automatically every time you update your code, and without the previous hassle of trying to work Sweave from within R.

Below are some screenshots of what RStudio can do (the first one shows a simple Sweave document and the output derived from executing the R code within that document, and the second one is the result of compiling the Sweave file into PDF):