FAQs

R-Instat is a separate software application from R and RStudio. 

R-Instat includes a version of R within the software and uses this for all of R-Instat’s data processing. In this sense, you can think of R-Instat as a “front-end menu system” for R. It provides access to the powerful tools in R without the need to write the codes or scripts yourself. R-Instat does this for you as you use the dialogs and displays outputs in the output window. You can see the R commands used by R-Instat in the output window when you run any dialog command.

RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for R. This means it supports you to use the R language. RStudio helps you write and manage R scripts, manage your R environment, display outputs and many more things related to the R language. If you want to use the R language directly, we recommend you use RStudio. If you’re not ready to use R directly, or you are not interested in learning the R language and just want to analyse your data, you may find R-Instat is a useful tool for you.