[R-SIG-Mac] R editor for Mac

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> 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).

Can you expand on that, Simon? Crashes when using Quartz would seem  
like an immediate deal-breaker for Mac OS X users. Does that mean that  
ordinary plotting calls would cause crashes?

I was assuming that users of RStudio would not be also using other  
GUI's, but I do not know whether I am using "external UI libraries" in  
my typical R activities using rms/Hmisc/survival. Is this in reference  
to packages such as rgl that invoke libraries such as GTK? Are Rattle  
or rggobi precluded as packages?

-- 
David.


> 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
>>>>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>>> 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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David Winsemius, MD
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