[Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?

[elw at stderr.org]

Ya, copy/paste from .Rhistory is pretty common.  Especially among newbies 
and oldsters who dislike IDEs.  :)  [I got burned by Borland, way back 
when, and basically can't stand "wizards" and the like now...]

Looks like someone wrote a "send-to-R" plugin for vim last year:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1048

--e



On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:19:54 +0100
> From: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz at cnio.es>
> To: r-devel at r-project.org
> Cc: elw at stderr.org, mel <mel at altk.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?
> 
> On Monday 26 February 2007 16:51, elw at stderr.org wrote:
>>> First, great thanks to all for all the answers. I confess i was a bit
>>> scared about (re)learning a possible tomorrow obsolete tool.
>>>
>>> I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R
>>> package developers use emacs ?
>>
>> Plenty of folks don't use an IDE at all.  Copy/pasting working bits of
>> code from your .Rhistory into a working file is a very useful tactic...
>
> You kidding, right? (I mean, maybe lots of people do that, but maybe that
> ain't such a good idea :-).
>
> R.
>
> P.S. Whether or not emacs + ess + ecb + a whole bunch of other things is or
> not a "real IDE" (whatever that means) I think is tangential to the original
> question. The issue, if I understand, are editing tools that will make the
> editing et al. simpler. So
>
>>> I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R
>>> package developers use emacs ?
>>
>
> No. Not 100%. But you said you'll be using Windows but want to move to
> GNU/Linux. Then, you might want to use the very same tool over a range of
> OSs, or regardless of whether you are in front of your workstation, or
> accessing it over a slow modem connection, etc. In such cases, Emacs is an
> excellent choice. Or one of the very, very few. In addition, I think you are
> seeing an example of  "once you try emacs, you often realize that other
> choices do not really offer you all that much, but you loose a lot".
>
> HTH,
>
> R.
>
>
>>
>> --e
>>
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