Running R inside a buffer in Vim

I have used Stata and gVim on Windows for a while now. Recently I have switched to Linux, and I am planning to also change from Stata to R.

A friend of mine is using R and Emacs ESS which seems to work perfect, however i'd rather like to keep using vim. I have installed the vim-r-plugin2, however, i can only send code to a seperate terminal running R. I would much rather split my screen into a buffer running R and one buffer with my .R file, and then send code from one to the other. With ESS in Emacs this seems to work, you can run a terminal/R in a buffer without a problem. I haven't found a way to make this work. The R plugin for vim uses screen, and the only way to open a buffer running a shell I could find is the Conque Shell plugin.

I know that unlike Emacs, Vim is designed to be a simple text editor. However, having R run in a buffer seems just so much more practical.

I hope my problem is understandable, please bear with me I only recently switched to Linux and know virtually nothing about programming besides statistics. Thanks!

I know about the ConqueShell plugin. But how do I get the vim-r-plugin to work with it?

ilprincipe 2010-09-12 09:30:09

@ilprincipe It cannot work with ConqueShell out-of-the box, but you can try to use my fork of this plugin: http://github.com/ZyX-I/vim-r-plugin2: it adds initial ConqueShell support, in order to use it set `g:vimrplugin_conqueplugin` in your vimrc. Maybe this changes will be pulled by the author later.

ZyX 2010-09-12 14:26:51

ive tried your solution, it works partly, some of the keybindings dont work since conqueshell can only send selections to a shell, not strings. ive shared your files with the author here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9836800#post9836800

ilprincipe 2010-09-12 18:34:57

@ilprincipe It can send strings to shell, review my solution. But this is undocumented and so may be changed in future versions without notice (though I do not think that this is likely).

ZyX 2010-09-13 12:40:30

@ilprincipe By the way, my commit was pulled into base repository. I do not know, whether package was updated, if not you can use [vim-addon-manager](http://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager) to install it from Git (you will need git installed). Add `call scriptmanager#Activate("Vim-R-plugin2")` to your vimrc and answer `y<CR>` on all queries at startup (one `y` and one `<CR>`, ignoring the fact that it will 'repeat' prompt after you press `y`).

ZyX 2010-09-13 12:49:08

my mistake, it works now. thanks alot for your help!

ilprincipe 2010-09-13 16:50:38

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