[R-sig-eco] script editor

[Simon Blomberg]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 01:01 +0100, amurta at ipimar.pt wrote:
> I have worked a lot with R on Linux (my old computer at work), FreeBSD  
> (my current computer at work), windows (my laptop at home) and MacOSX  
> (my wife's laptop). In all these platforms I've tried several editors:  
> emacs, gvim, kate, crimson, tinn-R, nedit, jedit, and others. All of  
> them are better or worse in particular points (gvim had the prettiest  
> syntax highlighting for R), and surely have been improving with time.  
> Still, the one that I found most convenient was emacs + ess,  
> especially because I can work exactly the same way in all operating  
> systems.

Another advantage of ESS+emacs is that you can use it to provide the
same interface for BUGS, JAGS, Stata, S-PLUS, among others. Even SAS (if
you must.) ESS is meant to be a "universal" interface to a large number
of statistical programming languages.

cheers,

Simon.

> Cheers
> 
> Alberto
> 
> 
> Quoting Jarrett Byrnes <jebyrnes at ucdavis.edu>:
> 
> > So, so far it seems like we have lots of votes for Tinn-R, a few for
> > Emacs, and for those on linux, Rkward looks pretty rocking.
> >
> > For those of us on OSX who are using the mac interface (I'm assuming
> > emacs won't pipe to it) are there other good editors out there beyond
> > the one that comes with R.app
> >
> > Oh, and a quick note that I found buried in some documentation rather
> > than an intuitive place: The R.app editor does allow you to pipe
> > selected code to the console.  Highlight it, and hit apple-enter.
> >
> > -Jarrett
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
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> > more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
> > able to say what the experiment died of.
> >
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