AW: [R] FW: using R under windows

[Andrew C. Ward]

Under Windows, I have been using ConTEXT as my editor. This is a 
freeware program I found at http://www.fixedsys.com/context/. I wrote 
an R highlighter for it that works pretty well. I can send this to 
anyone who's interested.


Regards,

Andrew C. Ward

CAPE Centre
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
andreww at cheque.uq.edu.au


Quoting Daniel Hoppe <daniel.hoppe at em.uni-karlsruhe.de>:

> William,
> 
> > Suppose I have a plain text file code.r full of R code
> > that I want to source into R. My problem is that Windows
> > invisibly tacks ".txt" onto the end of the filename (the
> name
> > looks like code.r but it is really code.r.txt). How to get
> > windows to both allow me to call it code.r (for real! Not
> > code.r.txt) and to edit it as a text file by default (say
> > with Notepad)?
> >BTW is there any way to get Windows to stop its fiddling with
> the filename
> >extensions?
> >If I call something file.txt it appears as file (although the
> real name is
> >file.txt)
> 
> In the explorer go to the extras->folder options->views tab
> (translated from
> german, might not match exactly). There you can uncheck "hide
> extensions of
> known file-types".
> 
> Beside that you might change your text-editor, notepad always
> fiddles around
> with the extensions. Try texpad with the s-plus
> code-color-scheme or winedt
> with the r-macros. Both really nice.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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