[ESS] project management in Emacs / ESS / R

[A.J. Rossini]

Thanks all, I was looking for something like projectile.    It seems
to do the job.

Basically the feature I was looking for was a "save where I am between
sessions", ie a UI version of git's stash :).

best,
-tony

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess projectile (http://batsov.com/projectile/) is the de-facto standard for
> managing projects. It supports search (many methods), navigation and replacing
> within projects. It supports R projects by default. All version controlled
> directories are also considered projects. You can make any directory a project
> by adding ".projectile" empty file to it.
>
> If you are a helm guy, then this helm+projectile walk through could be
> interesting:
>
>   http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html
>
> There is a pending issue on devtools integration
> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/229. It's a low hanging fruit. I hope to
> make it working by the next ESS release.
>
> For a fancy replace functionality have a look at ag + wgrep + multiple-cursors
> solutions explained at:
>
>    http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/212/is-there-a-way-to-use-query-replace-from-grep-ack-ag-output-modes
>
> I have no idea what RStudio is doing with the projects, but I highly doubt it
> will ever come close to the above features.
>
> What else would you need?
>
>   Vitalie
>
>>> On Fri, Sep 04 2015 08:28, Kevin Wright wrote:
>
>> When I do use RStudio, I don't use projects.  I don't save history,
>> don't save Rdata, etc.  So I also am curious about which features of
>> projects are desirable.  Personally, I'd rather see work done to
>> polish different aspects of ESS :
>> One-click Rnw -> open PDF.  (Takes 3 steps for me.)
>> One-click Rmd -> open html.  (I've got this working.)
>> Template for new Rmd files.  (I use template library for this).
>
>> Kevin
>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Tamas Papp <tkpapp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Tony,
>>>
>>> Being in a somewhat similar situation, I am also working in R at the
>>> moment. I am only barely familiar with RStudio projects, and I am not
>>> sure which features you require (maybe you could elaborate?), but for my
>>> needs, git + Emacs + org-mode + ESS works fine. In org-babel, you can
>>> use sessions on a section-specific basis.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Tamas
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 04 2015, A.J. Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all -
>>>>
>>>> After spending too much time with archaic languages which are archaic
>>>> (SAS) and living in the future (Common Lisp) I'm back to R for work
>>>> related programming.
>>>>
>>>> I had to use RStudio at first for various collaboration (and deadline)
>>>> reasons, and while I found it adequate, it was clunky and inefficient
>>>> for me.   However, it had a reasonable project management accelerator,
>>>> and I enjoyed that.
>>>>
>>>> What, if any, is the current best-practices for doing something like
>>>> the RStudio projects in ESS/Emacs?   I know I can go back and hack the
>>>> CEDET tools again, but there ought to be something less general,
>>>> restricted mainly on managing sets of files and displays.
>>>>
>>>> (I also can just do what I did before, but why waste microseconds
>>>> typing for the UI when I can save them for R and ESS hacking?)
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>> -tony
>>>>
>>>> blindglobe at gmail.com
>>>> Muttenz, Switzerland.
>>>> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we
>>>> can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>>>>
>>>> Drink Coffee:  Do stupid things faster with more energy!
>>>>
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-- 
best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we
can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

Drink Coffee:  Do stupid things faster with more energy!