[R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Since someone recently mentioned RStudio to me, I thought I would
reactivate this thread in order to mention it:

http://www.rstudio.org/

Seems pretty cool if you want the full IDE experience.

Dan


On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Gang Chen <gangchen at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Good to know that. Thanks a lot, Yan Zhou!
>
> Gang
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yan Zhou <zhouyan at me.com> wrote:
>
>> Holding the option key while selecting text, you can select the columns.
>> This is built into the Mac OS X and available in many Mac "native" text
>> editor like textmate, textwrangler, bbedit, etc, even the system's TextEdit
>> can do that.
>>
>> Meanwhile Vim can do column selection with the blockwise-visual (CTRL-V is
>> the default shortcuts). I don't use Emacs but heard it can do it, too. So
>> select, copy paste and replace columns is nothing special at all.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Gang Chen wrote:
>>
>> > I use nedit on daily basis because I usually run R on the Mac terminal or
>> > X11, not in the R GUI window. One feature I like nedit most is that I can
>> > select, copy, paste, and replace columns. Anybody know whether such a
>> > feature is available in other editors such as TextWrangler?
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot for sharing the syntax highlighting file, Christian! I'll
>> try
>> > it out soon. Do you know if there is any way to execute a highlighted
>> > portion of the R code in nedit?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Gang
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 AM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear All,
>> >>
>> >> Although this question was asked and answered many times, one editor was
>> >> never mentioned:
>> >>
>> >> As a long-time Mac user I prefer "nedit" for the following reasons:
>> >>
>> >> - it was developed by people who wanted to have a Mac-like editor on
>> Linux
>> >>
>> >> - it is almost as powerful as emacs but much easier to use and much
>> faster
>> >>
>> >> - it has built-in syntax highlighting for many languages
>> >>
>> >> - it has also syntax highlighting for R, simply install "R-5.3.pats"
>> >> (which I attach)
>> >>
>> >> - it is incredible fast, e.g.:
>> >>
>> >>  -- it can open text files of sizes larger than 500 MB in few seconds
>> >>     (e.g. the Affymetrix annotation file
>> >> HuEx-1_0-st-v2.na31.hg19.probeset.csv)
>> >>
>> >>  -- searching such large files is also incredible fast
>> >>
>> >>  -- it opens a C++ source code with 10,000 lines immediately (in
>> >> contrast to emacs)
>> >>
>> >> For these reasons I use nedit daily since more than 10 years on both
>> >> Linux and Mac.
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >> Christian
>> >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>> >> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n   S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
>> >> V.i.e.n.n.a           A.u.s.t.r.i.a
>> >> e.m.a.i.l:        cstrato at aon.at
>> >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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>> >>
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