[R] portable R editor
Michael Bibo
michael_bibo at health.qld.gov.au
Tue Mar 3 03:13:30 CET 2009
Werner Wernersen <pensterfuzzer <at> yahoo.de> writes:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been dreaming about a complete R environment on my USB stick for a
long time. Now I finally want to
> realize it but what I am missing is a good, portable editor for R which has
tabs and syntax highlighting, can
> execute code, has bookmarks and a little project file management facility
pretty much like Tinn-R has
> those. I like Tinn-R but it seems like there is only a very old version of
Tinn-R which works standalone.
Hi Werner,
Three options:
I have previously posted about using Emacs + ESS on a USB stick:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/107419.html
Tinn-R will work portably. I have simply copied the installed Tinn-R folder
from one machine to another on which I do not have administrator privileges
and therefore cannot do a normal install.
Another option is Notepad++ (http://notepad-
plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). There is even a portable version available
fom www.portableapps.com. Andrew Redd has created (and is continuing to
develop) NppToR (http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~aredd/site/?q=node/37) which
provides syntax highlighting, code folding and code passing to R. Notepad++
has a tabbed interface as well as add-ons including a file explorer, windows
manager and multiclipboard manager. It also allows for the recording of
macros, and the instructions found at this blog
(http://aztecpassage.blogspot.com/2007/11/load-new-file-from-template-in-
notepad.html) use Notepad++'s built-in capacity to run external tools to
create new files from templates.
Michael Bibo
Queensland Health
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