[R] R-/Text-editor for Windows?

[Eduardo de Oliveira Horta]

Sascha,

I guess the software you wan't is RKWard:

http://rkward.sourceforge.net/

I have tested a few R front-ends and to me this one seemed the most
adequate. I suppose as an ex-matlab user my interface preferences are
biased, but still RKWard has a good editor with syntax highlighting,
code folding, auto-completion and function hinting, and since it also
incorporates the R console into it's structure, anything you type in
the console window will be highlighted and hinted (if a function) as
well. And it's free.

I've tried Emacs Speaks Statistics and found it just confusing, to say
the least (by the way, I'm puzzled by why so many people adhere to
this one. Maybe it's a matter of getting used to it...?). Tinn-R (up
to the version I tested) didn't integrate well with R. WinEDT is good.

Give it a try and tell us what you think.

Best regards,

Eduardo Horta

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sascha Vieweg <saschaview at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tinn-R (http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/) is one of the topmost suggestions
> when googling an R-(text-)editor for Windows. However, to me it appears
> dissappointing that Tinn-R does not handle utf-8 (mac-roman, or any other)
> encoded R-scripts or, in general, text files. Besides Emacs and the R
> built-in editor, could you recommend a good editor for Windows, even some
> commmercial for a small price? (For a comparison, TextMate for OS X is 35
> USD and does a great job on all plain text and code related issues, not only
> R.) Thanks, *S*
>
> --
> Sascha Vieweg, saschaview at gmail.com
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