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Mentoring records and my helping articles on Coursera

It really depends on your preference to the interfaces of them. Keep in mind that RStudio is just an IDE of R language. Hence, you still need to have R installed before using RStudio. Other than that, the capabilities of R and RStudio are the same in terms of computation.

I think the advantages of RStudio are that it has a comprehensive GUI, and also a well-designed built-in editor for writing R scripts. As a result, most of the R users, including myself, choose RStudio as their working environment. Still, the plain R interface is good at displaying lots of data on the screen at once, so sometimes I would switch back to R to have a better look of my tables or results.