RStudio Server
Web browser based IDE for R.
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Still maintained? Yes: 578 commits in the last 90 days.
At a glance
RStudio Server quick facts
- Health score
- 60/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 5,103
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "- Customizable workbench with all of the tools required to work with R in one place (console, terminal, source, plots, environment, history, help, files, packages, etc.). - Syntax highlighting editor with code completion. - Execute code directly from the source editor (line, selection, or file). - Authoring of reproducible documents and reports with Quarto and R Markdown. - Optional AI features, including GitHub Copilot completions, Posit AI Pass Next Edit Suggestions, and the Posit Assistant."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
RStudio Server scores 60/100, #9 of 14 in Software Development - IDE & Tools: 578 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 5,103 stars add 14.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
578 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 14.8 / 20
5.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 578
- Last 90 days
- 1,902
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 14 tools in Software Development - IDE & Tools by health , between LiveCodes (#8) and Judge0 CE (#10) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Java, C++ |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 5,103 |
| Open issues | 1,348 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | rstudio/rstudio ↗ |
RStudio Server vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with RStudio Server (Software Development - IDE & Tools), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| code-server | 100 | 80k | MIT | yesterday |
| Langfuse | 98 | 37k | MIT | today |
| Coder | 97 | 17k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| JupyterLab | 97 | 15k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Lowdefy | 94 | 3k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| RStudio Server (this tool) | 60 | 5.1k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
RStudio Server: common questions
Is RStudio Server still maintained?
RStudio Server had 578 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today. Repoly recomputes this nightly.