Missing three of the four panes

[ChantelB]

Hi guys,

I'm really new to R, so please bear with me. I downloaded and installed R off of Cran and then installed R studio from the R studio website. Upon starting up R, I do not see three of the four panes. I only see the pane labelled 'R console'. I am using windows 8, 64x-bit.

I know the panes are not minimized or pushed off to the side, as can be seen in the screenshot. I also cannot go to 'tools' --> 'pane layout' in my toolbar, as I have seen previously suggested.

How do I create or obtain the other three panes?

Thank you, I appreciate any help you can offer.

[Yarnabrina]

Hi!

You have opened R. Open Rstudio and you will get something like the following:

Cheers!

Anirban

[jcblum]

Welcome! Mixing up R and RStudio is pretty common for beginners. This link might help:

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

In addition to that discussion, some things that are helpful to know when keeping all this straight:

• R comes bundled with its own very simple app on some platforms, which is what you opened.
• “RStudio” is commonly used as a nickname for the RStudio IDE (= integrated development environment, an app that gives you an interface for working with R). The RStudio IDE comes in two forms: RStudio Desktop and RStudio Server. The IDE is the flagship product of the company named “RStudio”.
• The “RStudio” brand is also used in the names of some of that company’s other related products (e.g., RStudio Connect, RStudio Cloud).
• This community is a project of RStudio the company!
• While RStudio the company is a strong supporter of R, it is a completely separate entity from the not for profit foundation that oversees the development of R itself.

[ChantelB]

Great, thank you so much for helping out a newbie!

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