Open Source RStudio Alternatives

The best open source alternative to RStudio is Jupyter. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to RStudio and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to RStudio are Spyder, RKWard, JASP and PSPP.

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  1. Jupyter icon

    Jupyter

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    The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much...

    55 Jupyter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Cloudron
    The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more.
     
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    Comments about Jupyter as an Alternative to RStudio
    Guest
    Negative
    20

    Jupyter is a notebook while Rstudio is an IDE

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Jupyter is a great RStudio alternative.

    • Jupyter is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to RStudio.

    • Jupyter is the most popular Open Source alternative to RStudio.

    • Jupyter is Free and Open SourceRStudio is also Free and Open Source
  2. Spyder icon

    Spyder

     71 likes

    Combines advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling functionalities with data exploration, execution, and visualization capabilities. Expandable using its powerful plugin system and API, providing flexibility for custom integrations.

    48 Spyder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
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    Comments about Spyder as an Alternative to RStudio
    Guest
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    Spyder is an IDE for Python, not R. Just because the Python language can be used for mathematics doesn't make this an alternative. Someone looking for alternatives to RStudio rather than R itself is going to be looking for R-based IDEs, not another language.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
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    Spyder appears not to be an R IDE

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
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    Different programming languages.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. Spyder is a legitimate RStudio alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Spyder is Free and Open SourceRStudio is also Free and Open Source
    • Spyder is Privacy focusedRStudio is not according to our users
  4. RKWard icon

    RKWard

     17 likes

    RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions. RKWard tries to combine the power of the R-language with the ease of use of commercial statistical...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about RKWard as an Alternative to RStudio
    Mehrad Mahmoudian
    Positive
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    RKWard is the closest alternative to Rstudio. It is an ODE specifically designed to work with R. It has almost all features of Rstudio. If you come from Rstudio it might take few days to get used to the layout and shortcuts (this applies to any migration in software world). to be brief, it does the job and it does it good.

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    Positive
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    Similar, good integration with KDE and more lightweight.

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    • Most users think RKWard is a great RStudio alternative.

    • RKWard is Free and Open SourceRStudio is also Free and Open Source
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    JASP

     33 likes

    JASP is a free and open-source graphical program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam. It is designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS. It offers standard analysis procedures in both their classical and Bayesian form.

    30 JASP alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Flathub
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  6. PSPP icon

    PSPP

     50 likes

    PSPP is a free software application for analysis of sampled data. It has a graphical user interface and conventional command line interface. It is written in C, uses GNU Scientific Library for its mathematical routines, and plotutils for generating graphs.

    40 PSPP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about PSPP as an Alternative to RStudio
    Guest
    Negative
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    PSPP is a GUI for a SPSS like language, it does not R and it is not focused on source code editing.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
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    PSPP appears not to be an IDE for R

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
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    RStudio is an IDE for data exploration, analysis and visualization in R. PSPP is more like a combination of R and RStudio.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. PSPP is a legitimate RStudio alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • PSPP is Free and Open SourceRStudio is also Free and Open Source
    • PSPP is LightweightRStudio is not according to our users
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    Livebook

     5 likes

    Livebook is a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks. Code notebooks with Markdown support and Code cells where Elixir code is evaluated on demand.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Livebook is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to RStudio.

    • Livebook is Free and Open SourceRStudio is also Free and Open Source
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    KNIME

     31 likes

    Knime is a java open-source, cross-platform application which name means "Konstanz Information Miner". It is actually used extensively for data mining, data analysis and optimization. It can be downloaded as the core application itself(Knime Desktop), or the whole SDK...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Polynote

     4 likes

    Polynote is a different kind of notebook. It supports mixing multiple languages in one notebook, and sharing data between them seamlessly. It encourages reproducible notebooks with its immutable data model.

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. SOFA Statistics icon

    SOFA Statistics

     20 likes

    SOFA Statistics is an open-source statistical package, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output. The name stands for Statistics Open For All. It has a graphical user interface and can connect directly to MySQL, SQLite, MS Access, and MS SQL Server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    Comments about SOFA Statistics as an Alternative to RStudio
    Guest
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    SOFA appears not to be an R IDE

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • SOFA Statistics is Free and Open SourceRStudio is also Free and Open Source
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    Positron

     2 likes

    A free, next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC. An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data. A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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    BlueSky Statistics

     6 likes

    BlueSky Statistics is a fully featured statistics application and development framework built on the open source R project.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    WinBUGS

     3 likes

    WinBUGS is statistical software for Bayesian analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. It is based on the BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling). It runs under Microsoft Windows, though it can also be run on Linux using Wine.

    14 WinBUGS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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