[R] Best IDE for R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Santosh Srinivas
<santosh.srinivas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R-Group,
>
> I am looking for suggestions for the "best" IDE for R. Best is obviously
> subjective but I need just the basic features that should function well (and
> I looked through the threads already).
> - Proper integration with R 2.11.1
> - Good key shortcuts ... similar to the R Gui
> - Manageability of Projects, etc.
> - Neat formatting features
>
> I tried Revolution R but it seems huge in size for something my basic needs
> and keep throwing up configuration problems.
> I tried Komodo. It works fine but having problems with "proper" integration
> into R and unable to do debugging.
>

This tends to be a subjective and personal decision.  Also your
feature list seems to go beyond "basic needs"  so you may need to
refine your true requirements but can do that at the same time as
checking them out by going through this list and trying each:  My
sense is that ESS and vim are the most popular:

   http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/projects/Editors.html

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