greggallen at gmail.com
2009-Feb-16 00:06 UTC
[R] How do I Edit Source Code Files On The Mac?
Hello! I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.11 on a G4. I use the "R" command, straight from a terminal, because the "GUI" is slower, and I've never liked GUIs anyway. I tried to set up my environment to use the vi editor, but it always tries to save it in wierd things like this: "/private/tmp/RtmpWIhhuo/41a7" 13L, 161C written Sure I can "cp" it from that to my R directory, but that just seems wrong. Anybody know what the "proper" way of editing and saving R source is?(Preferably from the Darwin command line.) Thanks, Gregg Allen Self-employed Techno-Geek/Slave
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, greggallen at gmail.com wrote:> Hello! > > I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.11 on a G4. > > I use the "R" command, straight from a terminal, because the "GUI" is > slower, and I've never liked GUIs anyway. > > I tried to set up my environment to use the vi editor, but it always > tries to save it in wierd things like this: > > > "/private/tmp/RtmpWIhhuo/41a7" 13L, 161C written > > Sure I can "cp" it from that to my R directory, but that just seems wrong. > > Anybody know what the "proper" way of editing and saving R source > is?(Preferably from the Darwin command line.)See http://ess.r-project.org/ You can run ESS in a terminal window (emacs -nw, I think) or you can install a Mac-ified emacs called Aquamacs that preserves a lot of Mac keybindings (some of which I 'disable' to prevent errant keystrokes from borking my session). Aquamacs has ESS installed and has some buttons and pull down menus that let you access ESS capabilities - saving you from having to do much study before trying it out. --- Also try RSiteSearch('Mac editor') at the R prompt to get threads about which editor to use. HTH, Chuck> > Thanks, > > Gregg Allen > Self-employed Techno-Geek/Slave > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901