Marc,

That is exactly what I was looking for, although I am surprised that this
variable does not appear to be configurable during installation from source
as are some of the other environmental variables.

Mark

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@comcast.net>wrote:

> on 07/30/2008 12:54 PM Mark Kimpel wrote:
>
>> I'm running R on Linux and use emacs as my editor. When doing
>> "edit(vignette(foo.vignette))" I would like to invoke emacs rather than
>> the
>> default vi. I am able to manually set this by editing $R_HOME/etc/Renviron
>> but would like to avoid doing this with each install. I assume this can be
>> accomplished with a flag to .configure or in .Rprofile but I can't find
>> the
>> syntax in R-admin. Editor is not listed as an environment variable in
>> appendix B of that manual.
>>
>> So, help is appreciated as I've probably missed something.
>> Mark
>>
>>
> Mark,
>
> See ?options for 'editor'. This is also referenced in ?edit, where the
> default value for the 'editor' argument is getOption("editor").
>
> Thus, in your .Rprofile, put:
>
>  options(editor="emacs")
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>



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