Dear R folks, (Running Windows 98, Pentium II, 128 Mb RAM) I have been using Splus 2000 for about 1.5 years, and have recently begun using R. I love the Open Source philosophy! I may be switching to to Linux soon. My question: How do people most often interact with R? In Splus 2000, I used "Script" windows to write functions. "Script" windows were great because: 1.. they are simple to start and save, 2.. I could highlight segments of code and run segments, 3.. They have the nifty feature of highlighting each opening parenthesis as you type the corresponding closing parenthesis, 4.. They were in Splus itself. Where would I look for a description of how folks interact with R to perform comparable tasks? Is there an introduction or appendix somewhere that walks a user through daily use that is a little beyond the simple command line stuff in V&R 3rd edition or "R for beginners" (E. Paradis 2000)? I thought I checked the standard documentation, but may have missed the relevent part. I have been writing functions and scripts in Word, saving as text (with the .txt suffix I cannot get rid of) and then using "source()" to implement functions. This is okay, but seems a little clumsy. Thanks for any input, Henry "With freedom comes responsibility." Dr. M. Henry H. Stevens Postdoctoral Associate Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources 14 College Farm Road Cook College, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 email: hstevens at rci.rutgers.edu phone: 732-932-9631 fax: 732-932-8746 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20010420/2e0e3a54/attachment.html
On Friday 20 April 2001 16:06, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
> Dear R folks,
>
> (Running Windows 98, Pentium II, 128 Mb RAM)
>
> I have been using Splus 2000 for about 1.5 years, and have recently begun
> using R. I love the Open Source philosophy! I may be switching to to Linux
> soon.
>
> My question:
>
> How do people most often interact with R?
>
>
> In Splus 2000, I used "Script" windows to write functions.
"Script" windows
> were great because:
>
> 1.. they are simple to start and save,
> 2.. I could highlight segments of code and run segments,
> 3.. They have the nifty feature of highlighting each opening parenthesis
> as you type the corresponding closing parenthesis, 4.. They were in Splus
> itself.
You can use ESS (Emacs speaks Statistics) under Emacs to quite the same
effect. I use it under Linux, but it is said to work under Windows, too. It
has even more features than S-Plus 2000's script windows, such as keyword
completion and syntax coloring. You find a link to it on the R-project site
somewhere.
I have used S-Plus 2000, too, and in my opinion, ESS is better. But, of
course, you'll have to learn to use Emacs to use it... (buy the O'Reilly
book
and go for it :-).
Cheers
Kaspar Pflugshaupt
--
Kaspar Pflugshaupt
Geobotanical Institute
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Hello! On 20-Apr-01 Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:> Dear R folks, > > (Running Windows 98, Pentium II, 128 Mb RAM) > > I have been using Splus 2000 for about 1.5 years, and have recently begun > using R. I love the Open Source philosophy! I may be switching to to Linux > soon. > > My question: > > How do people most often interact with R? >I know of two very popular (and IMHO nice) ways to interact with R: On Windows the WinEdt extension written by Uwe Ligges and for most platforms ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistic) -- you have to have an Emacs... ;-) Both can be found on the Downloadpage "Other". Both give you an easy way to edit functions and test them straight away. Just try them, they are great! Winfried ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Winfried Theis <theis at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Date: 20-Apr-01 Time: 16:50:46 Dipl.-Math. Winfried Theis, Fachbereich Statistik, Graduiertenkolleg "Angewandte Statistik" Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund Tel.: +49-231-755-5903 FAX: +49-231-755-4387 ---------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> "Martin Henry H. Stevens" wrote: > > Dear R folks, > > (Running Windows 98, Pentium II, 128 Mb RAM) > > I have been using Splus 2000 for about 1.5 years, and have recently > begun using R. I love the Open Source philosophy! I may be switching > to to Linux soon. > > My question: > > How do people most often interact with R? > > In Splus 2000, I used "Script" windows to write functions. "Script" > windows were great because: > > 1. they are simple to start and save, > 2. I could highlight segments of code and run segments, > 3. They have the nifty feature of highlighting each opening > parenthesis as you type the corresponding closing parenthesis, > 4. They were in Splus itself. > > Where would I look for a description of how folks interact with R to > perform comparable tasks? Is there an introduction or appendix > somewhere that walks a user through daily use that is a little beyond > the simple command line stuff in V&R 3rd edition or "R for beginners" > (E. Paradis 2000)? I thought I checked the standard documentation, but > may have missed the relevent part. > > I have been writing functions and scripts in Word, saving as text > (with the .txt suffix I cannot get rid of) and then using "source()" > to implement functions. This is okay, but seems a little clumsy.There is ESS for the Emacs, which is very nice for interacting with R. If you have WinEdt available, you might also want to have a look at R-WinEdt (only on windows). Both abvailable at http://CRAN.R-Project.org/other-software.html Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:> Dear R folks, > > (Running Windows 98, Pentium II, 128 Mb RAM) > > I have been using Splus 2000 for about 1.5 years, and have recently begun using R. I love the Open Source philosophy! I may be switching to to Linux soon. > > My question: > > How do people most often interact with R? > > > In Splus 2000, I used "Script" windows to write functions. "Script" windows were great because: > > 1.. they are simple to start and save, > 2.. I could highlight segments of code and run segments, > 3.. They have the nifty feature of highlighting each opening parenthesis as you type the corresponding closing parenthesis, > 4.. They were in Splus itself. > Where would I look for a description of how folks interact with R to perform comparable tasks? Is there an introduction or appendix somewhere that walks a user through daily use that is a little beyond the simple command line stuff in V&R 3rd edition or "R for beginners" (E. Paradis 2000)? I thought I checked the standard documentation, but may have missed the relevent part.Apart from ESS, you can highlight segments of code and run segments by using the Display file menu item in Rgui, and I find that more convenient than ESS (and just one key stroke). You can't edit in an R pager, though. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
At 04:13 PM 4/20/01 +0100, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: [snip]>Apart from ESS, you can highlight segments of code and run segments by >using the Display file menu item in Rgui, and I find that more convenient >than ESS (and just one key stroke). You can't edit in an R pager, though.Sorry, I've looked, but can't find: what is the key stroke to run the code? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._