[R] comand line options with editor call

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Ulf Martin wrote:

> Is there a way to call the editor with command line options?
> I.e. I want to use Vim and set it automatically in R mode when it is
> started.
> This requires something like
>
>    vim -c "set syn=r"
>
> as the start command.
> Any ideas?
>
> I am using R 1.5.1 under Win 2000.

Not possible on Windows.  The nub of the problem is that commands can
contain spaces, so there is no way to parse something like that.

options(editor='vim -c "set syn=r"')
does work on Linux, which assumes file paths do not contain spaces (even
though they can do so).

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