[throwway_278314]

really??? I've developed in R for over a decade using two terminal windows. One runs vim, the other runs R. Keyboard shortcuts to send R code from vim to R.

first google hit if you want to try this yourself: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/turning-vim-into-an-r-ide-...

Sooooooo much better than "notebooks". Hating on "notebooks" today.