[R] Editor for Mac OSX

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On 18.06.2008, at 18:09, Graham Smith wrote:

> Have a look at TextMate  http://macromates.com/

There are three extensions (bundles) available dealing with R for  
TextMate [up to now in the Review repository]:
[in very short terms]
1) R
- writing R scripts and executing it (plots are inside as pdfs  
available)
- one can execute more than one R script
- fast syntax highlighting, snippets (macros) for fast writing etc.
- command completion
- GUI for inserting function parameters
- displaying the command signature
- tidy function
- drag'n'drop facilities (drag a csv to the window it inserts read.csv 
('filename'))
....

2) R Console (R.app)
- to remote R.app via AppleScript but with all goodies of TextMate
....

3) R Console (Rdaemon) - an ESS-like extension
- R runs hidden inside of TextMate
- it combines a text editor and the R console in a sophisticated way
- easy to expandably
- many GUI-like elements (Graphics/Package Manager ...)
- only written in scripting languages
- crash safer - if R/TextMate/Mac crashes one has at least the entire  
last session as text file to reconstruct
....

and many many many more

If you want to know more let it me know.

--Hans

>
> 2008/6/18 Sebastian Leuzinger <sebastian.leuzinger at unibas.ch>:
>
>> Dear R-list
>> I am (forced) to change from Linux to Mac and am now looking for a  
>> new
>> editor for R. I would like one that features a split window  
>> (console +
>> editor) as well as syntax highlighting. Can anyone help?  
>> Especially the
>> split-window feature does not seem to be easily available in the  
>> editors
>> desribed on the R-help site, except Emacs, which I am reluctant to  
>> start
>> using.