It helped me complete homework for my class by allowing me to run economic regressions and evaluate statistical data.

R Studio is free, there's many plots and statistical analysis functionalities, graphs and a lot more. Easy to create R Notebooks and keep your code organized and presentable.

I spent a lot of time trying not to use R-Studio because I like to fight against the norm. I found that there are not other competitive IDE's for R. If time is spent to learn the hot keys and enhancements in R-Studio (such as the markdown and GitHub enhancements), one will not want to use other IDEs for R.

R is known for super high flexibility - allowing you to customize calculation, write codes that fit your analysis goals, etc. No restrictions whatsoever - what you can think you can make it happen in R.

R Studio works fantastically to make full use of the powerful capabilities of the language.