[R] Interacting with R

[Kaspar Pflugshaupt]

On Friday 20 April 2001 16:06, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:                 
                                                                           
> Dear R folks,
>
> (Running Windows 98, Pentium II, 128 Mb RAM)
>
> I have been using Splus 2000 for about 1.5 years, and have recently begun
> using R. I love the Open Source philosophy! I may be switching to to Linux
> soon.
>
> My question:
>
> How do people most often interact with R?
>
>
> In Splus 2000, I used "Script" windows to write functions. "Script" windows
> were great because:
>
>   1.. they are simple to start and save,
>   2.. I could highlight segments of code and run segments,
>   3.. They have the nifty feature of highlighting each opening parenthesis
> as you type the corresponding closing parenthesis, 4.. They were in Splus
> itself.

You can use ESS (Emacs speaks Statistics) under Emacs to quite the same 
effect. I use it under Linux, but it  is said to work under Windows, too. It 
has even more features than S-Plus 2000's script windows, such as keyword 
completion and syntax coloring. You find a link to it on the R-project site 
somewhere.

I have used S-Plus 2000, too, and in my opinion, ESS is better. But, of 
course, you'll have to learn to use Emacs to use it... (buy the O'Reilly book 
and go for it :-).

Cheers

Kaspar Pflugshaupt

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Kaspar Pflugshaupt
Geobotanical Institute
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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