What Makes RStudio Different?

Mission

RStudio is dedicated to sustainable investment in free and open-source software for data science, to help people understand and improve the world through data. Read More

Charter

RStudio is a Certified B Corporation, which means that our open-source mission is codified into our charter, and that our corporate decisions must balance the best interests of community, customers, employees, and shareholders. Read More

Products

Our enterprise-ready professional software products deliver a modular platform that enables teams to adopt open-source data science at scale. They are used by thousands of data scientists and hundreds of thousands business users in more than 1,200 companies. Read More

People

RStudio’s remarkable team includes many of the most respected and productive open-source data scientists and software developers in the world. Read More

Mission

The technology to amass data exceeds our abilities to make use of it. RStudio helps the world make sense of data, regardless of ability to pay.

RStudio’s primary purpose is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. This allows anyone with access to a computer to participate freely in a global economy that rewards data literacy; enhances the production and consumption of knowledge; and facilitates collaboration and reproducible research in science, education and industry. We spend over 50% of our engineering resources on open-source software development, and provide extensive support to the open source data science community.

Sustainable Investment: The adoption of our open-source data science software creates demand for our commercial products, which enable teams to adopt open-source data science software at scale. The revenue from our commercial products, in turn, enables ongoing investment in the open-source software that benefits all users.
Enabling Data Scientists for today and tomorrow: Our software is already used by millions of people to analyze data, and RStudio is equipping hundreds of thousands of students to be the next generation of people with the skills to make sense of data.
Proven Commitment to Community: in addition to our support for data science education, we extensively support the open source data science community through our annual rstudio::conf, the RStudio Community site where hundreds of thousands of open-source and professional users find help, Education resources for learners and teachers, and support for industry-funded organizations such as the R Consortium, NumFocus and Ursa Labs.
Focus on Reproducible Data Science: in order to maintain faith in the core data science tools, and allow solutions to be reused, repurposed, shared and widely leveraged, data science results must be reproducible over time and between different users.

Charter

We believe that corporations should strive to fulfill a public beneficial purpose, and that they should be run for the benefit of all of their stakeholders. Consequently, RStudio is registered as a for-profit, Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. Our stated public benefit is to create open-source software for scientific and technical computing. This means that our open-source mission is codified into our charter, and that RStudio’s directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to pursue that mission, along with balancing the needs of all stakeholders (including community, customers, employees, and shareholders).

RStudio is also a Certified B Corporation®, meeting the certification requirements set by the non-profit B Lab (a rigorous assessment of a company’s impact on its workers, customers, community, and environment), indicating that we have met the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability, Details of this assessment are available at https://bcorporation.net/directory/rstudio.

We are confident that the best way to achieve our purpose is to operate as an independent company. Our charter establishes an ownership and governance structure to ensure this independence and our ability to sustain investment in open source data science over the long term.

Products

In addition to our open-source data science software, RStudio produces RStudio Team, a unique, modular platform of enterprise-ready professional software products that enable teams to adopt R, Python, and other open-source data science software at scale.

Code-friendly: Real world data science problems are complex, and not easily solved with black box solutions. Code is vital for communication and reuse.
Mitigate Vendor Dependency: Unlike the exclusively proprietary software sold by traditional scientific and technical computing companies, RStudio provides core productivity tools, packages, protocols and file formats as open-source software so that customers aren’t overly dependent on a single vendor.
Modular Platform for impactful data science: Unlike monolithic data science platforms that require a massive investment up front in licensing costs and process changes before any real value is delivered, we provide a modular platform for open source data science.
Widely adopted: Because our open source software is already in widespread use by millions of users, many data science teams can start using it with little to no specialized training.
Scalable, enterprise-friendly and production-ready: Unlike fragmented open source tooling that can be difficult to scale and maintain, our modular platform can scale to large numbers of users and large amounts of data, and integrate into existing enterprise systems, platforms, standards and processes.

People

The people who have joined RStudio on this journey are remarkable. They include an exceptional number of the most productive and respected open-source data scientists and software developers in the world. Meet the RStudio team

The commitment to our purpose, and to being the most reliable and trusted vendor for data science software, is everywhere at RStudio. It is important to all of us that our customers and the community can find evidence of it not only in our products but in our thoughtful leadership, authentic marketing practices, knowledgeable sales efforts, responsive support, and in every other way we engage with them.