[R] text editor for R

Murray Jorgensen maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz
Thu Jul 8 01:37:23 CEST 2004


I tried R-WinEdt a few years ago, but as I remember it interfered with 
my usual use of WinEdt which is as a front end to MiKTeX. Is there a way 
to use WinEdt both ways?

Murray Jorgensen

Marc Schwartz wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:47, Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou wrote:
> 
>>Hi, 
> 
> 
>>What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the
>>text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be
>>nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted,
>>plus some other debugging functions. 
>>
>>Yi-Xiong
> 
> 
> More information is available at:
> 
> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/
> 
> Your e-mail headers suggest that you are using Windows. Thus, perhaps
> the two best choices (subject to challenge by others) would be:
> 
> 1. R-WinEdt (Under IDE/Script Editors)
> 
> 2. ESS for Windows
> 
> The above two tools provide for a wide variety of functionality beyond
> syntax highlighting.
> 
> There is a syntax highlighting file listed at the above site for jEdit.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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