[R-sig-Debian] Plugins for R and more...

[Johannes Ranke]

* Petar Milin <pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs> [090512 21:50]:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 21:05 +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> 
> > "gedit, the "standard" Gnome text editor also has a syntax highlighting
> > feature for R code."
> > So it seems like there is no real plugin.
> 
> Yes, however, highlighting is nice and I am used to do copy to console.
> 
> > Regarding the Debian repositories: If you run unstable (sid), you don't
> > need anything else. I you run lenny or oldstable (etch) I recommend the
> > backports from CRAN
> 
> Meaning exactly:
>  deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ lenny-cran/

Or any other CRAN mirror near you.
 
> > or, if you are already pinning, you can see how
> > long it works without pulling in more packages from sid.
> 
> Meaning to switch to sid? Yes, I know the temptation... :-)

Oh, nice misunderstanding :) I was talking about a new upload of R to
sid pulling in more sid packages when you use pinning. But it is always
tempting to upgrade to sid - I have run sid for several years, and only
very recently settled for lenny...

Johannes