[R] Editor alternative

[Marc Feldesman]

I'm using version 1.1.1 under Windows NT and Windows 2000.  I'm unable to 
get any editor other than Notepad to work.  (I don't have use for any of 
the Unix editors - vi or Emacs) but would like to use EditPadPro, which has 
some nifty features, including the ability to spawn Rgui from within 
it.  (No syntax highlighting programmability yet, but maybe soon).  Anyway, 
I have editpadpro.exe in my path and have a fully specified path statement 
in options(editor=....).  The options statement "takes" fine, but when I 
attempt to use the editor, I get an error stating that R cannot load the 
editor.  I ran into a similar problem with an earlier version of R under 
Win 98, but I haven't tried it under either NT or Win2K.

Am I missing something, or does R not really spawn an external editor 
properly (or at all) under Windoze?



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Dr. Marc R. Feldesman
Professor and Chairman
Anthropology Department
Portland State University
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Portland, Oregon 97201
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If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people
for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of
power."   P.J. O'Rourke

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