On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Andreas Leha <
andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> To complement this recent thread [fn:1] on the best features of
> Emacs/ESS it might be of interest to ask for the features you miss most
> in Emacs/ESS.  Maybe features that are present in other IDEs for R
> coding.  In the best case, that feature is not missing at all and
> somebody just needs to point to the solution.
>
> I go first and list two obvious ones:
> 1. an internal graphics buffer
>


I think this would be fairly easy to implement. All you might need is a
function, call it "emacs" that would delegate to png() or pdf() and specify
a (temporary) path watched by ESS/Emacs (presuming elisp has some sort of
FAM support). It need to specify a hook, via setHook, to know when the
plotting was finished, in order to call dev.off(). Then the user (or ESS)
would just enter options(device=emacs) to enable this.



> 2. decent support to display large tables/data.frames (or .csv files)
>
>
> In my experience the lack of these two features is the main obstacle in
> 'selling' Emacs/ESS to people using other IDEs, that support that.
>
> Feel free to tell me, that I am wrong (especially at the second point).
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [fn:1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/7465
>
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