[R-gui] jEdit and R [was: GPL licensing issues with a commercial R GUI]

[Karim Chine]

Dear Adrian

Apart from the Virtual R Workbench  I've written, I am not aware of a 
software/plugin that enables the use of R from  jEdit (you have only 
extensions for enabling R syntax highlighting). The workbench embeds a 
patched version of jEdit as a view. I have added to the jEdit ToolBar 
buttons for sourcing the script beeing edited to your R Server or to the 
jython / Groovy  interpreters available on client and on server sides. 
The spreadsheet view has a similar feature + data import/export to R + 
use of R functions in computed cells .
the workbench is available:
-as an applet : 
http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/rworkbench_applet.html
-as a Java Web Start application : 
http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/rworkbench.jnlp
-as a desktop application : java -jar biocep.jar     
(http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/appletlibs/biocep.jar)
you've got a "Getting Started" for runnig and connecting to R Servers 
here : http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/doc.html#Deliverables

you may also want to have a look the flollowing eclipse plugin : 
http://www.walware.de/goto/statet
it will probably in the near future embed biocep-core to run and control 
R Servers from eclipse.

Best wishes,

Karim

Adrian Dusa wrote:
> Dear Karim,
>
> I am currently using jEdit for writing R code, and I find your R integration 
> highly useful. What should one do in order to link jEdit and R, is there a 
> jEdit plugin or something?
>
> Thank you,
> Adrian
>
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Karim Chine wrote:
>   
>> Michael, All,
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>> You may want to check the following link: www.biocep.net ,
>> it's about a general unified open source (Apache 2.0) solution for
>> integrating R.
>> I have been working on it for about a year and a half, it's still work
>> in progress but most of the announced features are in full working order.
>> I should release it before the tutorial I will be giving during useR!
>> 2008 (http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/tutorials/chine.html)
>> Biocep use cases include : run R as a Server (RMI,HTTP,SOAP) , generate
>> Web Services for R functions (stateful/stateless), deploy an R
>> virtualization infrastructure,
>> use a highly-productive workbench to control R Servers  ( multi-platform
>> GUI for R, most advanced one currently available with spreadsheet views,
>> embedded jEdit,
>> interactive Zoom/Scroll on R graphics, extensibility with plugins,..)
>> and more..
>> Slides can be found here :
>> http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/distR.pdf
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Karim
>>     
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