[R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac

[Simon Urbanek]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:

> 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.
> 

Just a tiny, technical side-comment:  it uses a separate process for R which has serious technical implications (you can't use any GUIs, external UI libraries, or even native devices like Quartz for example - it leads to crashes). We have tried that long time ago with the first Cocoa GUI but quickly abandoned that path. It works well for sandboxed environment (e.g. as a server) but not for a local GUI. That said, it is a very impressive attempt to learn from the rich history of all the R GUIs created so far.

Back to the original thread, though, thanks to Hans-Joerg Bibiko who did a great job there will be a big overhaul of the R Mac GUI for R 2.13.0 with a new editor.

Cheers,
Simon



> 
> 
> 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
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>>>>> 
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