[R] Using an editor with R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

But beware of those untrustworthy ESS users :)

>From www.vim.org:

The spammers have found us
[2005-11-18] I suppose I should be surprised that it took this long
but it appears as if the spammers have found us. There are two things
that I want to do to fix this: (1) Implement moderators, (2) Require
login to post a tip. I would like to get a quick and dirty version of
#1 up quickly to deal with the problem. I am looking for volunteers to
moderate. A moderator must: (a) visit and read tips regularly, (b) be
willing to dedicate time to moderating, (c) be a good person. OK, so I
admit (c) might be a bit much but if you are a vim user there is a
good chance you are a good person (it is the emacs users I never know
if I can trust :). If you are interested please send me an email at
scott dot m dot johnston at g mail dot com. Thanks for your patience.
(Scott Johnston)



On 11/26/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 11/26/2005 4:53 PM, Walter R. Paczkowski wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I changed the setting in options$editor to allow me to use my favorite editor.  In R 2.1.1 on Windows XP, I entered at the command line:
> >
> > options(editor="c:\\program files\\winedit\\winedit.exe")
> >
> > When I edited a function, say test, using fix(test), the editor opened perfectly.  But, when I saved the file and closed the editor, the R gui screen was white, blank, and completely unresponsive.  The only thing I could do was close R by clicking on the "X" in the upper right corner of the window.  How can I use my editor but be able to continue using R after I close the editor?  What extra setting am I missing?
>
> This sounds like you didn't really close your editor.  R isn't smart
> enough to know that the editor closed a file, it can only see when the
> process finishes.
>
> I'd recommend using the RWinEdt package instead for a different way to
> integrate winedit with R.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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