[Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 25, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Chris Jackson wrote:

> There's been requests in the past for a text editor built into the 
> Rgui for Windows, from which code can be submitted to the R console.  
> Something along the lines of the script editor in S-Plus.  Currently 
> Rgui can only display a file read-only in a pager.  As far as I can 
> tell there's been little motivation to implement an editor, as most 
> developers use (the excellent) ESS, or don't use Windows.  I also use 
> ESS, but the students here are taught S-Plus and learn to use the .ssc 
> editor.

It may be of interest that our group is working on a GUI for R written 
in Java, i.e. it should be platform independent (at least we plan to 
support Windows, Mac and Linux). Among many other features this GUI 
includes such an script editor as described above. Data set editor 
mentioned in other posts in this thread is included, too. We are of 
course open for any further ideas or wishes. The official release is 
planned for the useR! 2004 conference in Vienna.

Simon

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