Hi,
I also use emacs.
If you use emacs you will want to make use of ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics)

http://ess.r-project.org/

emacs is a highly customizable and programmable environment. If you haven't
used it before you may find the learning curve a bit steeper than that for
RStudio and Eclipse.

One feature I find to be very helpful/powerful is the use of regular
expressions for finding text or making substitutions.

One can have multiple "frames" (independent windows), frames can be split
horizontally or vertically multiple times to display different "buffers."

One can have buffers that run a shell (e.g. bash) and easily copy and paste
between buffers.

I make extensive use of key bindings that allow me to use my function keys,
in combination with the control, option and command (on mac) keys to access
my most commonly used commands.

I also use "abbrev_defs" to insert commonly used text sequences.

One thing I plan to start using soon is "snippets" (from the yasnippet
package)

Does anyone on the list have a set of "snippets" they have developed for R
that they would be willing to share to the list?

I can share information about my R emacs addons.

How would sharing of code or documents be best done? via a website, sharing
google docs? I don't have time for infrastructure development, so something
simple would be best.

- Aaron


-----Original Message-----
From: Yue Li
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:23 PM
To: bioconductor@r-project.org
Subject: [BioC] R IDE editor


I am trying to develop a package with lots of scripts in it but find myself
have many windows of source scripts (each for a function) open in R GUI. I
am trying an IDE called R Studio. It has great potential but currently the
syntax colouring is very poor (black, blue, or green, that's it ...) and the
tabs are not movable etc.

-- 
Aaron Brandes
Computational Biologist
Broad Institute

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