[R] New version of R-WinEdt (for Windows)

[Uwe Ligges]

There was a user request to announce this new version (1.6-0) of
R-WinEdt (actually, the request was to announce version 1.5-1). It is 
propagating through CRAN these days and (is|will be) available at
  yourCRANmirror/contrib/extra/winedt/

For those who have not already noticed the changes since R-WinEdt 1.4-x,
I'd like to summarize the changes below. The most exciting one is the
new automatical installation procedure (since version 1.5-0 R-WinEdt
installs like any other R package on Windows, so knowledge about Windows
*.bat files and shortcuts etc. is no longer required). There are also
changes for syntax highlighting and an automatical detection of the
window mode RGUI is running in.

Some changes are due to user requests, other changes have been proposed
by myself in the corresponding paper of the DSC 2001 proceedings (not
all are implemented). I'd like to thank all those users who helped to
improve the Plug-In with their bug reports, feature requests, or 
"simply" some questions on the usage.


Changes in RWinEdt_1.6-0:
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- Detects whether RGui has been started in --sdi or --mdi mode
- Added features to move (indent) blocks of code, and insert
   comments (#) blockwise, as known from the regular WinEdt mode
   for LaTeX et al. editing
- Added version control system that knows when the R-WinEdt
   system has to be updated.
- R-WinEdt no longer sets WinEdt as the default pager.
- Fixed problem that startWinEdt() started WinEdt in its "-V"
   mode.

Changes in RWinEdt_1.5-1:
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- Index of (exported) object names updated (R-1.8.0 related).
- Syntax highlighting
   - for Namespace operators (::, :::) added (R-1.8.0 related).
   - for `backtick names` added (R-1.8.0 related).
   - for 'single quotes' added.
   - for old assignment operator "_" removed (R-1.8.0 related).
   - for "double quotes' fixed.
   - for assignment operator "=" fixed.
   - for comparisons (e.g. "==") fixed.
- Documentation related to the broken (doesn't seem to be fixed soon)
   automatical installation of the SWinRegistry package added.
- More carefully loading SWinRegistry using require().

Changes in RWinEdt_1.5-0:
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- Now providing R-WinEdt as a package called RWinEdt:
   - introducing a new installation procedure,
     installed like an R package, called like an R package (library())
     - requires Omegahat package SWinRegistry
   - providing an R Menu to call R-WinEdt
- minor fixes for Windows XP timings
- minor fixes for Syntax highlighting ("=", "_", ...)


Uwe Ligges