[R-sig-eco] script editor

Simon Blomberg s.blomberg1 at uq.edu.au
Thu Apr 24 02:03:32 CEST 2008 

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:23 -0700, Brian Knaus wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I currently use and enjoy emacs with ess on Ubuntu Linux.  I really  
> like it because it provides tool such as coloring of comments, quotes,  
> functions in different colors of text.  It has parentheses matching.   
> And it also allows for sending lines, sections or entire buffers of  
> commands to R for execution.  You can find info on ESS including the  
> previously mentioned Windows version at:
> 
> http://ess.r-project.org/
> 
> I do think it is noteworthy to point out that there are multiple  
> 'flavors' of emacs out there which I have yet to really figure out  
> (e.g., emacs, xemacs).  Some of these provide the traditional (Unix)  
> key bindings for copy & paste, which to most Windows users will appear  
> confusing.  I am currently using a version of emacs which appears to  
> be version 22.1.1 which claims to have been 'modified by Ubuntu' which  
> allows ctrl-c ctrl-v copy and paste.  This makes transition from  
> Windows much easier.

I use GNU emacs 22.2.1, which is the latest release for Debian Linux. To
get C-c C-v etc., just choose the CUA option in the Options menu. But I
use the emacs bindings almost exclusively. Just needs a bit of practice.
What's really weird is copying text in emacs using M-w and pasting it
into another application using C-v. You sort of have to be
bilingual. :-)

"Learning GNU emacs" (O'Reilly books) can be useful for beginners. They
also publish a GNU Emacs pocket reference. There are also lots of free
web resources.

Cheers,

Simon.

> 
> In short, emacs is very powerful but will probably appear complicated  
> to new users.  There are ways around this and it is worth the effort  
> to learn the key bindings if you use R frequently.
> 
> -- 
> Brian J. Knaus
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
> Oregon State University
> 2082 Cordley Hall
> Corvallis, OR 97331-2902
> http://oregonstate.edu/~knausb
> 
> 
> Quoting Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk>:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 07:36 -0700, Christian A. Parker wrote:
> >> I also like Tinn-R on a windows machine.
> >>
> >> But I have another question, Ive recently switched one of my computers
> >> over to Ubuntu (Linux). Currently I am just using Kate+Konsole and to be
> >> honest it works great accept for the lack a send lines command. So I was
> >> wondering if anyone out there knew of a sendlines mod for Kate
> >
> > Kate has the Pipe to console menu item, which works either by sending
> > the whole buffer or by sending the highlighted region. You can assign
> > this a shortcut under the Settings Menu > Configure Shortcuts..., find
> > the relevant command, click the image of the keyboard key and add in a
> > keyboard short cut of your choosing. Make sure you don't overwrite
> > anything useful - I just tried this with Alt+R.
> >
> > Now you can use (e.g.) Alt+R to pipe regions or the whole buffer to the
> > konsole running at the bottom of the screen. Just start R in the
> > embedded konsole first and it is read to be piped to.
> >
> >> or had
> >> some advice or knew of a tutorial for EMACS+ESS for the reluctant Tinn-R
> >> user?
> >
> > Personally I use Emacs+ESS on my Fedora boxes, but I still can't
> > remember how to copy/paste all the time using Emacs commands... so not
> > the best person to be providing advice.
> >
> > G
> >
> >>
> >> -Chris
> >>
> >> ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
> >> > Here's another fan of TINN-R. The TINN-R website suggests a few line of
> >> > code to add into the Rprofile file which causes TINN-R to launch as soon
> >> > as you start up R. Furthermore it has syntax highlighting that works for
> >> > brackets too (display what opening bracket corresponsed with a closing
> >> > bracket). And one can define shortcutkeys for sending code to R.
> >> >
> >> > Let's say that I don't want to miss TINN-R for all R, S+, Latex, Sweave,
> >> > HTML and PHP stuff.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Thierry
> >> >
> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > ----
> >> > ir. Thierry Onkelinx
> >> > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
> >> > and Forest
> >> > Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics,
> >> > methodology and quality assurance
> >> > Gaverstraat 4
> >> > 9500 Geraardsbergen
> >> > Belgium
> >> > tel. + 32 54/436 185
> >> > Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be
> >> > www.inbo.be
> >> >
> >> > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
> >> > than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to
> >> > say what the experiment died of.
> >> > ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
> >> >
> >> > The plural of anecdote is not data.
> >> > ~ Roger Brinner
> >> >
> >> > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
> >> > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
> >> > data.
> >> > ~ John Tukey
> >> >
> >> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> > Van: r-sig-ecology-bounces at r-project.org
> >> > [mailto:r-sig-ecology-bounces at r-project.org] Namens Dave Hewitt
> >> > Verzonden: woensdag 23 april 2008 15:07
> >> > Aan: r-sig-ecology at r-project.org
> >> > Onderwerp: Re: [R-sig-eco] script editor
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Does anyone have a recommendation for an R script editor that can be
> >> >>
> >> > run on
> >> >
> >> >> a pc?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I also like Tinn-R. It's simple and easy to use. Just in case this will
> >> > save you
> >> > a bit of frustration, be sure to install R in SDI mode (choose custom
> >> > installation in the Install Wizard to get the option). The default is
> >> > MDI mode
> >> > and Sci-Views says new Tinn-R versions don't play well with R. I've
> >> > never tried
> >> > it, so I don't know what happens if you use MDI mode.
> >> >
> >> > One handy feature of Tinn-R (and probably other editors) is that you can
> >> > click
> >> > the R-> icon on the upper right to launch R. That passes your current
> >> > working
> >> > directory to R when it loads up, so you never need full path names in
> >> > data read
> >> > statements. Just put the .R script and the data in the same directory,
> >> > open
> >> > Tinn-R by double-clicking the .R script, and then launch R from Tinn-R.
> >> >
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