R Statistical Software (2024)

Run R Online

CoCalc handles all the tedious details for you, regardless of whether you want to work on the

command line, run

Jupyter Notebooks, create RMarkdown files, or use

Knitr in LaTeX\LaTeXLATE​X documents.

This page is about ways to use R in the

CoCalc platform.

• No need for you to download and install R.
• CoCalc already provides many packages for you.
• The LaTeX editor is already integrated with R.
• You no longer have to maintain everything on your own.

Start working by creating or

uploading R files, RMarkdown documents, or

Jupyter notebooks.

CoCalc offers a

complete rewrite

of the classical

Jupyter notebook interface. It is

tightly integrated into CoCalc

and adds real-time collaboration, TimeTravel history and more.

There is also support in CoCalc for easily using R with the

classical Jupyter notebook and JupyterLab.

Privately share your project with

an unlimited number of collaborators. Simultaneous modifications of your document are

synchronized in real time. You see the cursors of others while they edit the document and also see the presence of watching collaborators.

The fully integrated

CoCalc LaTeX\LaTeXLATE​X editor

covers all your basic needs for working with .tex,

.Rnw and .Rtex files. The document is synchronized with your collaborators in realtime and everyone sees the same compiled PDF. In particular, this $\LaTeX$LATE​X editor

• Manages the entire compilation pipeline for you,
• Automatically processes .Rnw and .Rtex files using Knitr,
• Supports forward and inverse search to help you navigating in your document,
• Captures and shows you where each $\LaTeX$LATE​X or R error happened,
• and you can useTimeTravelto go back in time to see your latest edits and easily recover from a recent mistake.

This means you can move

your entire workflow online to CoCalc:

1. Upload or fetch your datasets,
2. Use Jupyter Notebooks to explore the data and test your hypothesis,
3. Discuss and collaborate with your research team,
4. Write your research paper in an .Rtex or .Rnw document,
5. Publish your datasets, your research code, and the PDF of your paper online, all hosted on CoCalc.

You can edit RMarkdown files in CoCalc's code editor, as explained here.

CoCalc's library

features selected example files to get started quickly: e.g. HTML reports, article templates and a beamer presentation.

By simply clicking one button,

your R source code is formatted in a clean and consistent way

using the

formatR package.

R code formatting works with

pure .r files

and

Jupyter Notebooks running an R kernel.

All your existing R scripts run on the command line right in CoCalc.

Open a Terminal

and you find yourself in a familiar Linux shell with a local filesystem for your data files, access to

Git and

a large number of commands... Feel at home and run your analysis as usual!

Terminals can be used by multiple users at once. This means you can work with your collaborators in the same session at the same time. Everyone sees the same output, and via

side chat next to the terminal, the whole team can coordinate.

Collaboration is a first class citizen on CoCalc. A

side-by-side chat

next to your R code, $\LaTeX$LATE​X files and notebooks makes it easy to discuss content with your colleagues or students. You can also create dedicated chatrooms.

Look at our list of available packages

in more detail. If something is missing, please tell us about it (

) so we can install that package globally.

You can configure if your published files should be listed publicly, or rather only be available via a confidential URL.

Snapshots are consistent read-only views of all your files in a

CoCalc project. You can restore your files by copying back any that you accidentally deleted or corrupted.

The

TimeTravel feature

is specific to the CoCalc platform. It records all your changes in editable files like R source code, Jupyter notebook and $\LaTeX$LATE​Xdocuments in fine detail. You can go back and forth in time across thousands of changes to recover your previous edits.