[R] good editor for R sources ?

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Tue Apr 26 20:26:14 CEST 2005


> From: Rau, Roland
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of vincent
> > (Sorry if the question has already been answered.)
> > Could someone please suggest a good text editor for
> > writing R sources ?
> > (I know emacs exists ... but I find it a bit heavy).
> > I use crimson (http://www.crimsoneditor.com) which is
> > small and simple, but the R syntax seems not to be supported.
> > Thanks for any advice
> 
> although I prefer myself (X)Emacs, I suggest to people Tinn-R, it is
> GPLed, has syntax highlighting, and something I haven't seen with any
> other editor before:
> You write for example:
> mydata <- read.table("xxxx.csv", header=TRUE, ....)
> and while you are writing your code, a line pops up below the line you
> are writing giving you the arguments and their default values for the
> current function (I was impressed, I have to admit).

I believe the builtin editor in JGR can do that, too.

Andy

 
> The homepage of this project is:
> http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/
> 
> Best,
> Roland
> 
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