[R] Mac Text editors

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-09-26 9:21 PM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre wrote:
> My vote for R-Studio. Very elegant design and great functionality. However if coming from languages like Java and others then eclipse is better. R-Studio have dedicated section for Mac user which you will find useful.

One of the nice features of R-Studio is that it has a built in LaTeX 
support, including Sweave and knitr.  The PDF viewer synchronizes with 
the source, which is extremely convenient.  It is also cross-platform, 
so if you learn to use it and then switch OS's again, you don't need to 
go through this search again.

(But I have to admit that I don't use R-Studio all the time.  I've used 
a Windows editor (Textpad) for so long that it's hard to break the 
habit.  On a Mac I'll generally run it under Parallels, even when 
running R in MacOS.  This is another approach to cross-platform 
development, albeit a pretty silly one.)

Duncan Murdoch

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> Best Regards,
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> Bhupendrasinh Thakre
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Steven Wolf <wolfste4 at msu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not…I'll let you be the judge).  Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only).  I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there.  However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet.  (For example, where is my .emacs file?)
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>> What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal).
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>> Thanks!
>> -Steve
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