[R] What editors can I get R in Mac OS X to talk to?

[stephen sefick]

the version of aqua macs that I have installed- you just go to file
and open an R buffer, push the R logo in the corner and you are off
and running.  EES is already installed.  Hope this helps.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Charles C. Berry <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mike Williamson wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>   Apologies if this was already answered... I couldn't find an answer that
>> specifically addressed Mac OS instead of either windows or linux.  I use
>> "aquamacs emacs" as my text editor.  It is essentially Xemacs with a GUI
>> that looks closer to standard Mac GUIs, as far as I can tell.  I installed
>> the GUI-friendly Mac version of R.  I can have R choose the aquamacs as
>> the
>> editor of choice, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do any script
>> executions.  E.g., highlighting part of the script and then hitting CTRL-R
>> or something similar to get just a portion of the script to run.
>>   I would install ESS, since I know that is supposed to help emacs talk to
>> R, but I have no confidence that it either (a) works for the Mac (if so,
>> do
>> I install the unix version?
>
> Yes, it works, and yes install following the unix instructions:
>
>        http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/Manual/readme.html#Unix-installation
>
>
> if I do that, can I only run it on my Mac via
>>
>> the unix command calls?), or (b) works with the aquamacs editor.
>
> It will work either way. However, running emacs in a terminal window has
> some annoyances.
>
> In aquamacs, you might want to disable clover-Q and clover-P if the clover
> key sits next to the meta key and if your fingers are a clumsy as mine - I
> was constantly killing sessions or starting the print dialog when all I
> wanted was to fill-paragraph or recall the last command via
> comint-previous-input.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck
>
> p.s. Mac stuff should go to R-sig-mac.
>
>
>
> I don't
>>
>> care about the editor so much, I could find a less fancy text editor.  But
>> I
>> don't really know how to install ESS properly on a mac.
>>
>>                          Thanks in advance!
>>                                      Mike
>>
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Stephen Sefick
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