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

Romain Francois rfrancois at mango-solutions.com
Wed May 14 09:57:50 CEST 2008


Hi,

I do not mind people pointing work I have done ;-)
The plugin is kind of not really operational, but I am using it. The 
version there is old, but somehow not a great deal of work has been done 
on it since. I am happy to discuss it more though.

Cheers,

Romain

Adrian Dusa wrote:
> Oh, I knew Romain was working on this plug-in, but I didn't know it was 
> operational.
> I'll try it and see how it works, thanks for the news.
> Adrian
>
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>   
>> If you search the R help list, you'll find a thread about jEdit and R.
>> Romain Francois at Mango Solutions had created a very nice jEdit plugin for
>> R. It integrated R with the Console and SideKick plugins and a lot more.
>>
>> He posted something here:
>> http://addictedtor.free.fr/jedit/jeditr.tar.gz
>>
>> I hope Romain does not mind me posting that link. It's probably a very old
>> version.
>>
>> Hope that's of interest
>> Michael
>>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Karim Chine <karim.chine at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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