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Microsoft and the R(evolution)

Microsoft and the R(evolution)

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Over the last few years Microsoft have been building infrastructure to support the R language within a number of tools, technologies and platforms. Microsoft R Open Initially distributed by Revolution as Revolution R Open and after acquisition in 2015 the free to own and distribute version of R was rebranded Microsoft R Open. The current release is based on R-3.3.3 (with new distributions coming out a month following the CRAN version update). In addition to the total compatibility with the…

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“Error in editor” using swirl in R Studio.

“Error in editor” using swirl in R Studio.

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When R Studio is running the swirl package and the swirl tutorial attempts to open an editor containing a code snippet, the following error is displayed and swirl will exit. Error in editor(file = file, title = title) : argument “name” is missing, with no default | Leaving swirl now. Type swirl() to resume. Before you restart the swirl tutorial type the following command at the prompt. options(editor = “internal”) Now when you restart the tutorial the editor will be…

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