[R] editor for MacOS

[Tobias Verbeke]

On 12/16/2010 04:54 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 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.

As it is difficult to measure 'conceptual similarity', let me
add another cross-platform option, namely Eclipse and its
StatET plug-in

http://www.walware.de/goto/statet

Best,
Tobias

> 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
>
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