rite helps ease new R users' transition to R, a major rite of passage.rite is designed to substitute for the built-in script editor provided by R and improve upon it by offering functionality more commonly found in standalone editors and IDEs (e.g., syntax highlighting, command completion, shortcut keys, find and go-to-line commands, direct acces R help files, etc.), as well as an optional output viewer that eliminates the need to toggle between the script editor and the R console (and that additionally facilitates integration with knitr.