[R] editor for MacOS

[Marc Schwartz]

On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Troels Ring wrote:

> Dear friends - I'm using Tinn-R in Windows and find it OK. My son is running MacOS and is just starting using R and I know nothing about MacOS and R but we seem to have difficulties in finding something similar to Tinn for MaC. What are your suggestions?
> Thanks a lot!
> Troels Ring, MD
> Aalborg, Denmark


I have not used Tinn-R, so can't speak for specific functions. That being said, Emacs/ESS is perhaps the most conceptually similar environment. It is also portable across Windows, OSX and Linux, which can provide consistency advantages if supporting multiple platforms.

Vincent Goulet has made it easy to install for OSX with a binary image. More info here:

  http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/mac

He also has a Windows installer here:

  http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/windows


Further OSX specific queries are also best posted to:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac

HTH,

Marc Schwartz