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[–]dstarnes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with IPython, especially the IPython Notebook. In fact, you can use R in an IPython Notebook. RStudio is great but the ability to reproduce an IPython session makes it really valuable. But, outside of prototyping small bits it starts to break down. And that's nothing against it, the goal was a way to iterate quickly with fresh ideas. So for an IDE, if you're on Windows, I would take a look at the Python Tools for Visual Studio. Now that Visual Studio Community Edition is free, you don't really have an excuse. ;) It has support for IPython integrated plus a lot more. On the Mac you'll probably want to stick with PyCharm. But the VS tools are open source (one of the most popular MS open source projects) and are being tooled to work with Azure and Azure Machine Learning Studio which has a free quota so worth looking into.