Helpful but limited with large data sets
It’s super helpful to have an iOS implementation of R, and this app has been designed well with the OS in mind, but I find that it continually crashes when I try to import files to process in R. I am hopeful that this is a temporary glitch and not an ongoing issue, as I feel that aside from this one (but significant) problem, this app could solve all sorts of issues when it comes to working with data while in transit.
Edit: developer was able to help me solve my issues, and it is now working fine for me. It would be helpful if the app could notify you of files that are too large to open on the device and suggest alternative ways to open them rather than just having the device crash.
Edit: developer was able to help me solve my issues, and it is now working fine for me. It would be helpful if the app could notify you of files that are too large to open on the device and suggest alternative ways to open them rather than just having the device crash.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your review. Does the crash happen for specific files? Are the files on your device or iCloud?Could you please send those files to info@kappsmart.com so that we may investigate.
Can’t import code
I can’t even import code to the app. Useless.
Love the interface but can’t seem to figure out
What file pathway(I.e”/desktop/data..) do you use to set a working directory in a file in iCloud. Love the interphase and it is nice to code from bed with my iPad in my lap. Just can’t get data files from the cloud loaded into the interphase
Code Completion would easily convert to a 5 star
This app seems like a great utility to learn R on the go when I am traveling, I have been a Python user for the past couple years. Besides the ads being annoying and making me contemplate buying the pro version, would only buy it if code completion because a utility. Would really like to know if this is in the plans for this application. Also some more themes would be nice as well.
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Ok app, no options on ios
It’s an ok app, but I can’t get as much use out of it as I would like because it doesn’t allow installing packages through devtools::install_github() which is pretty unfortunate for what I was looking to do, and gives the error: “ 'lib = "/usr/local/R/3.6.0/lib64/R/library"' is not writable”
Response from developer
Please install packages using the Packages tab. You may also contact us at info@kappsmart.com for more information.
UI
Major UI improvements are needed. The green accents and out of date icons are extremely off putting for me personally.
Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback! You may also contact us at info@kappsmart.com if you have any model UI that you would have liked!
Great App
It’s best best R compiler.
Response from developer
Apologies for the inconveniences. Please make sure that the package is supported in the selected R version.
Ggplot not running!!!!!
Hello app designers, note that ggplot is not running and the app is missing a simple “help” feature where a user contacts the designer of issues like these. Looks like you made it just to sell and do not care about the quality. You either fix it and make it usable or I am getting my money back.
Response from developer
Hello, please send your codes to info@kappsmart.com so that we may investigate.
Only download if willing to upgrade to paid version
You need to pay to actually do something on the app
Response from developer
Hello, all functionalities are available in the free version except for installing packages and viewing plots.
Disappointing
SUMMARY: Don’t bother.
REVIEW:
Neither R nor any of its packages are installed on your phone by this App. Instead, your R code is sent over the internet to be executed. The annoying thing about this—besides always needing an internet connection—is that you can’t work with R interactively. Instead, every time you want to run a line of code you have to re-run the entire script from start to finish. In addition, features like autocompletion (e.g. for when you forget a function’s exact name), which would be extremely helpful for writing code on-the-fly on your iPhone, are unavailable because packages are not loaded directly on your iPhone. Plus, there are a lot of things that need to be improved, such as the auto-indent feature (and because there’s no button to indent, say, 4 spaces with one press, a working auto-indent is crucial).
Ideally, this would be like Pythonista but for R. However, it’s no where near that level of quality (despite being a mere $2 cheaper). Unless the developer changes their approach entirely (by turning this into a mini R IDE for the iPhone), this app is no different than the many websites that let you write and compile R code for free.
I really wanted to like this app but the more I used it the more I just got annoyed by its shortcomings, which is why I now regret paying for it.
REVIEW:
Neither R nor any of its packages are installed on your phone by this App. Instead, your R code is sent over the internet to be executed. The annoying thing about this—besides always needing an internet connection—is that you can’t work with R interactively. Instead, every time you want to run a line of code you have to re-run the entire script from start to finish. In addition, features like autocompletion (e.g. for when you forget a function’s exact name), which would be extremely helpful for writing code on-the-fly on your iPhone, are unavailable because packages are not loaded directly on your iPhone. Plus, there are a lot of things that need to be improved, such as the auto-indent feature (and because there’s no button to indent, say, 4 spaces with one press, a working auto-indent is crucial).
Ideally, this would be like Pythonista but for R. However, it’s no where near that level of quality (despite being a mere $2 cheaper). Unless the developer changes their approach entirely (by turning this into a mini R IDE for the iPhone), this app is no different than the many websites that let you write and compile R code for free.
I really wanted to like this app but the more I used it the more I just got annoyed by its shortcomings, which is why I now regret paying for it.
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