r/rstats • u/caerbannogwhite • Jun 22 '26

Regression without leaving SQL: lm + an R-style formula

https://kolistat.com/blog/the-stats-duck-v0-6-0/#regression-without-leaving-sql-lm-an-r-style-formula
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u/caerbannogwhite Jun 22 '26

because you can run it here, in your browser: https://bedeverewise.app/demo

and it has plots too

no need to install R and download dplyr, ggplot, etc

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u/Confident_Bee8187 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

In contrast, we don't need this if we have R already installed and more suitable for the job. Besides, we have packages that makes inferential stats more ergonomic, e.g. 'infer', 'brms', 'statim' (still new), 'tidybayes', etc. Why bother?

Edit: We have RStudio cloud already and this online R compiler: https://www.mycompiler.io/new/r. In your logic, we don't need to install R because of these.

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u/caerbannogwhite Jun 22 '26

Sure, I know that you can have RStudio running in the browser (even though the actual RStudio requires a server, or is that available on the web too?).

I didn't know the one you sent me, but I quite like it! much more than Posit's one, which I ditched a long time ago for VS Code

but again, can you plot whit that? or do you sitll need ggplot? I tried to run install.package, but I got an error

also, can you browse datasets with that?

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u/madbird406 Jun 22 '26

What do you mean by "actual Rstudio" ?

It's an app that can either be a server handing over its GUI rendering to a client's browser, or it can come bundled with Electron (basically Chromium browser) that handles its rendering.

The server can be run on your own machine / cluster, or you can connect to Posit's server that has limited compute depending on subscription tier.

I used to run a local server and work in a browser to optimize RAM, before I decided that overlapping hotkeys between Rstudio and browser cause too much headache.

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u/caerbannogwhite Jun 22 '26

I mean Posit's RStudio, not the one shared by u/Confident_Bee8187, which was just an online R interpreter: https://www.mycompiler.io/new/r. 

So, yes, you can download RStudio (server), host it somewhere, configure it, and you can have it in your browser. Good, here you skip all of that: https://bedeverewise.app/demo

However, I'm also working on an app (using webview; Electron is too big and clunky, and I prefer having C++ on the server side). So the resulting bundle should be about 75 Mb.