Any recommendations for a good Windows text editor for R?
I've been using Tinn-R, and it's been working reasonably well, but am curious to know what else people use.
There is support for R, however, the lexer could be improved. Specifically, it flags e.g. "plot.df" as a keyword rather than an as an ordinary R object.
andrewj
2009-07-28 00:36:14
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Emacs with ESS, which you can install via Vincent Goulet's prepackaged versions. No further configuration needed.
One really nice things about Emacs/ESS is that it behaves the same no matter which OS you are on, which makes switching a lot easier.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2009-07-23 18:16:29
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Here's a list of IDE/script editors for R compiled by Philippe Grosjean.
pageman
2009-07-23 18:41:47
I just tried it. One minor issue is that while NppToR flags opening and closing parentheses and brackets, you don't see similar notification with brackets. If this issue were address, it would be much better.
andrewj
2009-07-27 18:15:51
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I use Tinn-R because it lets me step through my code, or just send bits of it to the R window, which I find incredibly useful. The ability to highlight a few lines and hit send just meshes well with my workflow habits. I'd love to find a similar tool for Python (I'm sure someone will tell me what it is). However the NPPtoR link looks very interesting and I will have to try that.
kpierce8
2009-07-27 04:46:14
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I use gvim. Not sure how popular that is with other Windows users, but the following set of utilities come in handy and can be used by any editor capable of binding keys/functions to commands:
http://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/
batchfiles contains batch (.bat) and javascript (.hta and .js) files useful in conjuction with R and R packages on Microsoft Windows. There is no formal installation, each consists of a single file and is independent of the others so just place any or all of them anywhere in your Windows path and you will be able to access them in any Windows console session.
In particular, the AutoHotKey scripts in that bundle are nice for sending selected text to an R console.
ars
2009-07-27 05:33:49
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My vote is for vim, because I can use it on all systems I can think of, both in graphical and terminal mode.
gappy
2009-07-27 17:11:01
I just tried using Eclipse. However, the StatET can't be installed with the current version of Eclipse.
andrewj
2009-07-28 00:35:24
Right, one usually has to wait for a couple of months before all plug-ins have versions compatible with the latest Eclipse. Meanwhile you can grab the previous release ('Ganymede') and give it a go
Yann Abraham
2009-07-29 07:22:45
Just tried the newest version of StatET to go with Eclipse. Overall, Eclipse seems a bit heavy for my purposes. Still waiting for an editor that has great code highlighting and indentation.
andrewj
2009-08-13 14:23:55