--- title: "R-Studio Data Recovery Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of R-Studio Data Recovery. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if R-Studio Data Recovery is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/r-studio-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Data Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/) / [R-Studio Data Recovery](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/r-studio-profile/) / R-Studio Data Recovery Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/r-studio-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/r-studio-profile/alternatives/) # R-Studio Data Recovery User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 85 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Customer support: 4.0/5 - Value for money: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.4/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 55 reviews (65%) - 4 stars: 24 reviews (28%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 2 reviews (2%) ### Most mentioned pros - R studio data recovery helps you use more efficiently the R Studio platform - Featurts of R software is simple and powerful for data analysis. - Overall the tool is great, I love the usability of the tool along with the ease to preview the files to be recovered beforehand allowing me to make sure I am recovering the right file before I do it. ### Most mentioned cons - This may explain some of the results, but it does not change my experience as a paying customer or the fact that the program failed to perform the task for which I purchased it, while its RAW recovery could not even reliably reconstruct all of the files that I know were completely healthy on the source drive. - I confirmed that the problem was the incorrect file identification by recognizing some of these files myself and manually changing their extension from .nef to .tif - R-Studio failed to recover a single one of the 459 corrupted files I needed, including ordinary JPEG files. ## R-Studio Data Recovery customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 85 (page 1). ### Good product but.. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · monthly - Reviewed: October 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I purchased the software in January 2026, and less than a year later, I replaced my desktop computer. Because of the new motherboard, their only solution was to purchase another license at a discounted price. I understand the need to protect software licenses, but I believe customers should be allowed to transfer their licenses when replacing or upgrading computers, especially when the original license is less than a year old. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros R-Studio is a good data recovery product, and I have no complaints about the software itself. It did what I needed. #### Cons License is permanently tied to the original motherboard and cannot be transferred, even when the software is no longer being used on the original computer. --- ### R-Studio Recovered 0 of 459 Corrupted Files - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Sasa P. - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: August 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered After two days of working with R-Studio, approximately 30 hours of disk scanning, and a detailed examination of every relevant recovery result, I consider this software a scam and I do not believe it is worth the $79.99 I paid for it. I purchased R-Studio specifically to recover 459 corrupted files with a total size of approximately 258 GB. These included large MP4 video files, but also much simpler JPEG photographs. R-Studio failed to recover a single one of those 459 corrupted files — not even one JPEG. What I find particularly concerning is what happened with the completely healthy data that was also present on the same drive. There were 4,493 perfectly healthy files totaling 159 GB, for which I have backup copies, so I was able to reliably compare the results. Through RAW recovery, R-Studio reconstructed approximately 90% of these healthy files correctly, but around 10% of files that were perfectly healthy on the source drive were reconstructed as corrupted. Some photographs contained large green areas and other visual artifacts, while some files could not be opened at all. R-Studio also incorrectly identified a number of healthy TIFF photographs as Nikon NEF files. I confirmed that the problem was the incorrect file identification by recognizing some of these files myself and manually changing their extension from .nef to .tif — after which the photographs opened normally. In the end, R-Studio reported the successful recovery of 312,920 files totaling approximately 297 GB, but those impressive statistics did not represent actual recovery success. Not a single file for which I purchased the program was successfully recovered. The manufacturer itself acknowledges limitations of RAW recovery, including false positives and problems with fragmented files. Its own documentation explains that raw recovery identifies data through file signatures and that fragmentation can result in unsuccessful recovery. This may explain some of the results, but it does not change my experience as a paying customer or the fact that the program failed to perform the task for which I purchased it, while its RAW recovery could not even reliably reconstruct all of the files that I know were completely healthy on the source drive. Based on all of the above, I consider R-Studio a scam and I do not recommend buying it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros The interface is reasonably well organized and the scanning process provides a lot of technical information. #### Cons The biggest problem is reliability. R-Studio failed to recover a single one of the 459 corrupted files I needed, including ordinary JPEG files. Even more concerning, its RAW recovery incorrectly reconstructed around 10% of files that were completely healthy on the source drive — some images had large green areas and other artifacts, while others could not be opened at all. It also misidentified some healthy TIFF files as Nikon NEF files. After about 30 hours of scanning and generating 312,920 recovered files totaling approximately 297 GB, the number of files I actually needed that were successfully recovered was zero. --- ### R Studio for Machine Learning - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Statistical Analytics #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros For developing statistical models For Exploratory Data Analysis #### Cons Can be made more user friendly and with good User Interface --- ### For all statistics and data analysis needs - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros R studio - IDE is has made coding in R easier. This software stands out from other such IDEs for different programming platforms because of its ease of installation (Won't face problems related to environment variable/path as often as faced by other tools) and features - the notepad/console/library etc are available in others but this tool lets you look at the variables/dataset - sort and filter interactively without having to code every step. R studio is available in the cloud version as well - so we need not install it in every computer in case we want to use on the go. #### Cons I like everything about this tool, I would definitely recommend this to all R programmers --- ### Do not buy this product. They treat people with disabilities like garbage. - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I had a minor technical issue and R-Studio would not spend 30 seconds on the phone assisting me, a person with a disability who cannot process their written instructions. I don't whine about my disability. I simply ask for an accommodation, which, in my country, is required by law. I hope consumers who require data recovery software consider alternative products before giving their money to these ignorant people. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros I think it can work if you understand how to use it. #### Cons The instructions are now impossible for me to understand. I have owned this software for many years; however, my disability is worse and I could not get through the first step.... Select Drive. It was always "greyed out." I phoned tech support because I have a disability... HE WOULD NOT HELP ME! I told him I cannot email because of my disability... He told me to hire a professional data recovery company. I said nothing is wrong with my drive, I am only looking for one file. He said he had another call and he hung up on me. --- ### Definitely Recommend - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall its an A+ product, I highly recommend. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Almost everything about this is good, the documentation, syntax, github integration, the packages for ML applications and more. #### Cons It can be little slow and glitchy at sometimes but most of the time its does not disappoint. --- ### RStudio is the Best Way to Use R - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Working with R Studio is great, it is easy to pick up for beginners as well as is a powerful IDE for advanced users. Code written in RStudio can be published and shared with ease. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Using RStudio allows a user to get the most out of R. It is very easy to install and use packages. New packages can be learned and understood very quickly with the help function and the examples that they provide. Images and graphics can be displayed, resized, exported as the user needs them to be. #### Cons Some of the defaults can be difficult to work with. Depending on what a user is planning on using R for certain defaults can be poor ways of displaying information, such as when to use scientific notation. Additionally, it is possible to perform actions that either cause infinite loops or could run for days if uninterrupted. --- ### Excellent for analytics and data manipulation! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered R is incredibly simple and allows for easy manipulation and analyzation of data. It is a tool that handles anything from basic data manipulation to complex machine learning applications. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros R-Studio is great for doing any form of statistical analysis. R is very easy to learn and everything seems to flow once you get the basics down. There are countless number of packages that you can use to make your analytics and data manipulation easier. There are even packages to allow you to use python libraries and tools. #### Cons No major complaints. Sometimes it's difficult to find the packages (and their documentation) easily. I often find myself googling things instead of using the built in help function. --- ### A great tool for data analysis - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Excellent for data analysis for large data files. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Free, open-source, incredibly rich community of online users, there is seemingly a package for any type of work you are trying to do. #### Cons Somewhat steep learning curve, some packages don't work on government servers, overall straightforward syntax but some challenges. --- ### Valuable - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. With R I have actually used some of the predictive modeling to help make some financial decisions where I work and it has been very valuable for what our needs are. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really like being able to make predictive models through R. Ive been using this software for about 8 months now and I feel like I am staring to get the hang of it. it requires just a good background in coding but the applications that you can use it for are great! Ive learned how to calculate discrete probability functions on R and its very accurate. oh and its free! #### Cons My biggest complaint about R is the huge learning curve that comes along with trying to learn it. I have to say that I was very frustrated at times. I had no previous experience in small amounts of coding or statistics but I must say that this software is good when you get the hang of it --- ### R-Studio - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Chemicals - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. R-studio is perfect. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has traceback that can help find where the error is. It has a very good tool for customizing it. It is flexible in changing windows. #### Cons Sometimes when updating, the packages are gone! --- ### R-Studio Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am using it for almost 2 years and it makes me like the programming much more! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is user friendly. Make using R programming easy with its features. #### Cons Sometimes is does not run properly and needs to be restarted --- ### Powerful data analysis software for working with multiple large datasets at once - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, R is an excellent data analysis platform, that allows for the creation of polished graphs, and includes a large number of packages that make data analysis easy and intuitive. It very rarely if ever crashes and allows for pulling data from different datasets. Some commands are more complicated than comparable code lines in other programs but usually any issues can be solved by a search engine inquiry. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I use R to analyze data for academic papers. Most recently, I used it to analyze a large dataset of survey responses, and what I like the most is that it can manage using data from different datasets all at once, which is great for large projects. I also think that R is very intuitive when it bounces back with an error to the user, because it explains what the issue is in more detail than other comparable data analysis programs. Lastly, I really like the fact that R very rarely, if ever crashes and that the data analysis code is saved whenever there is a package that requires the program to restart. The packages are also great and allow you to solve more complex data issues than other programs, and it R is particularly adequate for polished graphs, using the ggplot package. #### Cons My least favorite part about R is that it is sometimes surprisingly complicated in terms of the code required to complete simple tasks like rename a variable, but there are a lot of forums online for R support, so usually any issues are a search away. I also think R is not quite as good as other programs at giving detailed information on the results of data matching or reshaping data, but this is only a true issue for very specific research projects. --- ### University lecturer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: kenaw d. - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am doing on it up to now. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is friendly software. we can easily access it. #### Cons There is no limitation to this software. --- ### A perfect solution for all your data analysis problems - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: January 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Initially its really difficult similar to all other coding language, once understand the logic, then it will be easy like anything. we can use different packages and do all difficult statistical problems in simple commands. highly reliable and handle large number of files at a time. #### Cons we should have the logic to use this language, by practice only we can develop it --- ### R-studio Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It has a user-friendly interface and it's much easier to use R-studio rather than an R console. It's a great tool for statistics and data analysis. #### Cons If you are working in an optimization area, this tool does not provide many options. --- ### R studio is powerful - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that you can download and install various packages with powerful functions to help analyze and visualize data. Anyone can use or contribute their own packages. #### Cons When the amount of data is huge, R studio tends to slow down or take a long time to process. Perhaps Python would be better in this case. --- ### Rstudio Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I'm analyzing a survey made to investigate the labor situation of civil engineers in Honduras. Im preparing all the analyses with R #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I like the most is that it is free. It also has a more friendly interface than other software programs like pyhton or matlab. I'm using it now for my learning in the data science area and it is very handy when you have a great amount of data #### Cons It is easier to use excel to wrangle and clean data. However, it depends, if the amount of data is too much, excel would not have the capacity to run. For now, I'm ok by cleaning and ordering data in excel and then make my data analysis in R --- ### Review R studio - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · monthly - Reviewed: February 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros R studio data recovery helps you use more efficiently the R Studio platform #### Cons As well know from R studio there’s always a bit of lack on the performance compared to competitor --- ### Review R - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros R studio is the gold standard for modern day coding solution. I just love it #### Cons The UI could be better, long scripts of code starts becoming confusing because of its not so good UI --- ### Crucial if You Want to Learn R - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ellie A. - Industry: Research - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. If you are going to use R, you must download R Studio with it. It's free and makes the tool easier to work with. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros R Studio allows you to utilize R coding in a much more visually appealing way than the tool itself. It makes data visualization better-looking, the coding itself easier to construct, and overall makes life easier. #### Cons Some of the features for saving your projects and coming back to them can get a bit tricky. Sometimes when I try to go back to a saved project it gets messed up or I can't find it. However, this could easily be user error. --- ### R for small business - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros R is a great tool. The amount of packages that are offered within it is mind-boggling, and they all have countless capabilities. I use one called "psych" to do different statistical calculations on data. It's awesome. #### Cons The only cons in my opinion so far is that it can be challenging to learn. Syntax differs between packages, so that's just something you have to get used to. The only upside is that Google oftentimes can help you figure out what you're trying to do. --- ### If you are working in R then this is the tool. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall it is a good IDE for R language and user-interface is best in it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best thing is user-interface and if you are dealing with heavy code R is there for your help. Variables are pre-defined there you can use autocomplete features to make coding convenient. #### Cons Sometimes the process gets freeze and hand and it leads to your work loss as it is not autosaved. Some features and extensions are not run in an optimized and smooth manner. --- ### Must have tool for recovery - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · a few times a year - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I've used this tool only a few times. But it'd a life saver. It's a easy recommendation to purchase! #### Cons Absolutely no cons with this software! Well worth the price --- ### Very good tool for data analysis - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall experience till now is good as per my uses. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I'm just a beginner of this tool and find it very useful now. It is open source and pro version is also available. Alot of packages are available can be easily used. Git repository can easily be accessible. #### Cons It is actually straight forward. Other softwares are also available in market which are much faster than R studio. ---