[R] R editor in ubuntu!

[peter dalgaard]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 16:29 , Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:

> see below.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Laurent Gatto <laurent.gatto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Kjetil,
>> 
>> On 5 October 2010 15:12, Kjetil Halvorsen
>> <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> emacs23+ess is great BUT there is a very large problem which is
>>> driving me away from it:
>>> (on ubuntu) since version 23, emacs has a very problematic bug, which
>>> I have reported as:
>>> 
>>> bug#6193: emacs 23 in ubuntu 10.04 gnu linux:
>>> black lines overwrite text!
>>> 
>>> but the emacs devs does'nt seem to respond. This makes in practice
>>> emacs23+ess UNUSABLE until fixed.
>> 
>> Am a bit surprised here, as I am happily running emacs 23 (23.1.1 with
>> GTK+ user interface to be precise) and ess on ubuntu 10.04 and I do
>> not have any problem.
>> 
> 
> I am glad to here that, but it does'nt help me;!
> 
> The problem with black lines overwriting text in emacs mostly occurs
> if I have a high memory load (maybe around 1 GB used on this 2GB
> system), mostly from other programs running (Firefox, document viewer, others..)

Ouch! However, it sounds like an X11/font/memory/display type issue, and could well be unique to your hardware.

One generic "fix" is to run emacs -nw in a terminal window. You'll lose the friendly menu bar and have to remember a bunch of keyboard shortcuts, but some of us did this for quite a while...

-pd  

> 
> ¿can you try that?
> 
> Kjetil
> 
>> Laurent
>> 
>>> Kjetil
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:52:53AM -0700, Mehdi Zarrei wrote:
>>>>> I am looking for an editor to be able to execute commands into R in Linux ubuntu. Is there any suggestion?
>>>> 
>>>> 1.  See R FAQ, Section 6 at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-Emacs
>>>>    and do 'apt-get install emacs23 ess'
>>>> 
>>>> 2.  If Emacs isn't to your liking, try 'apt-get install kate' as one of the many alternates.
>>>> 
>>>> 3.  There is a dedicated list 'r-sig-debian' for Debian/Ubuntu. Subscribe, and post follow-ups there.
>>>> 
>>>> Dirk
>>>> 
>>>> --
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