Tomas Kalibera
2022-Dec-20 21:27 UTC
[Rd] Problem with accessibility in R 4.2.0 and 4.2.1.
On 9/22/22 23:15, Andrew Hart via R-devel wrote:> ????On 22/09/2022 16:42, Toby Hocking wrote: >> Another option is to use https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ >> <https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/> (version of emacs editor/ide >> which can speak letters/words/lines -- has a blind maintainer) with >> https://ess.r-project.org/ <https://ess.r-project.org/> (interface >> for editing and running R code from within emacs) > > Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. Of course, the optimal > solution would be to figure out what is going on in Rgui, but, as is > always the case, the blind user use case is a fairly niche one. I > appreciate all the suggestions for finding an immediate solution to my > problem. > I don't use any kind of IDE for working with R since I simply haven't > found one that is accessible or that i understand how to use. There is > a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE I installed a few years ago, but I > didn't understand the first thing about how it was to be used. So I've > just always worked with an editor open in one Window and R in another, > working interactively in R or bouncing over to the editor for more > complex things and sourcing code into R as necessary. However, I only > use the R console in Rgui. I went and had a look at Rterm, which I > have never used on Windows; I've only ever used it when ssh-ing into > Linux systems to use R. However, I've just found out that Rterm does a > number of fairly important things that probably mean I can just use it > instead of Rgui: > 1. You can paste from the clipboard into the Rterm prompt; > 2. It has a command history; > 3. If you plot something, it opens a Window to draw the plot (I never > realised it could do this and had always assumed Rgui was needed for > this); and > 4. It opens the HTML help if you ask for help on windows. I only ever > saw it display text help on Linux, but I was logged in remotely. > Text-based help is fine when ssh-ing into a machine, but HTML help is > much nicer to read and navigate. > > I think I'll just switch over to Rterm for a while, but I can also > check out ess, which I wasn't aware of. > > Thanks a lot, > Andrew. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel