I'm using version 1.1.1 under Windows NT and Windows 2000. I'm unable to get any editor other than Notepad to work. (I don't have use for any of the Unix editors - vi or Emacs) but would like to use EditPadPro, which has some nifty features, including the ability to spawn Rgui from within it. (No syntax highlighting programmability yet, but maybe soon). Anyway, I have editpadpro.exe in my path and have a fully specified path statement in options(editor=....). The options statement "takes" fine, but when I attempt to use the editor, I get an error stating that R cannot load the editor. I ran into a similar problem with an earlier version of R under Win 98, but I haven't tried it under either NT or Win2K. Am I missing something, or does R not really spawn an external editor properly (or at all) under Windoze? ====================Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Anthropology Department Portland State University 1721 SW Broadway Portland, Oregon 97201 email: feldesmanm at pdx.edu phone: 503-725-3081 fax: 503-725-3905 http://odin.cc.pdx.edu/~h1mf ===================== "Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." P.J. O'Rourke Powered by Optiplochoerus and Windows 2000 (scary isn't it?) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Marc Feldesman wrote:>I'm using version 1.1.1 under Windows NT and Windows 2000. I'm unable to >get any editor other than Notepad to work. (I don't have use for any of >the Unix editors - vi or Emacs)I have no idea about the editor you mentioned, and I would still insist on using Emacs, with ESS, it's all the front-end you'll ever need... :-) Are you aware that Emacs runs under NT? <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html> Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Graduate astronomy-student Problems worthy of attack University of Oslo, Norway Prove their worth by hitting back E-mail: kjetikj at astro.uio.no - Piet Hein Homepage <URL:http://www.astro.uio.no/~kjetikj/> Webmaster at skepsis.no -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Marc Feldesman wrote:> > I'm using version 1.1.1 under Windows NT and Windows 2000. I'm unable to > get any editor other than Notepad to work. (I don't have use for any of > the Unix editors - vi or Emacs) but would like to use EditPadPro, which has > some nifty features, including the ability to spawn Rgui from within > it. (No syntax highlighting programmability yet, but maybe soon). Anyway, > I have editpadpro.exe in my path and have a fully specified path statement > in options(editor=....). The options statement "takes" fine, but when I > attempt to use the editor, I get an error stating that R cannot load the > editor. I ran into a similar problem with an earlier version of R under > Win 98, but I haven't tried it under either NT or Win2K. > > Am I missing something, or does R not really spawn an external editor > properly (or at all) under Windoze?I have written an extension for the editor WinEdt. Everything works fine on WinNT, if I use something like options(editor="\"c:/program files/winedt/winedt\" -Options") Could you provide an example [option(.....) and error message]? 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
----- Original Message ----- From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> To: "Yves Gauvreau" <cyg at sympatico.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 7:19 AM Subject: Re: ? backslash was Re: [R] Editor alternative> Yves Gauvreau wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I just want to point out an observation. I noticed that path stringsunder> > Windows required that I double up the backslash "\" as it is used as an > > escape character as in C. I think that most if not all of the "Unixtools"> > ported to Windows accept path strings with a single backslash. I wonderif> > it would be worthwhile to reproduce that behavior under R somehow? Imean> > kind of preprocessing the params used as path strings transparentlysince> > character vectors don't "escape" the backslash. > > > > I understand it is much easier to require from users of R under Windowsto> > comply with it's path strings needs. Maybe it would be nice to justprovide> > a simple function in "base" for the sole purpose of translating Windowspath> > strings to the required form. > > I don't think, it is necessary. It is not so difficult to use "/" or > "\\" instead of "\" ... > > Uwe LiggesI agree when you have a single path string to process it's ain't worth the trouble but what about situations where say you make use of a large number of Windows path string stored in a file or anywhere else and you want to process each of the files the path string points to? I think a more generic solution might be appropriate. Of course if no one as the need to process a large number of files in various directory on it's file system under Windows then this thread is dead in the water. Also if the number of people with such needs is small they probably already have implemented a solution to their problem. I just though that a function in base for such problem would have been a nice consideration to us Windows users. No offence intended to the rest of the world. Yves Gauvreau -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._