R help - Jul 2002 - Script file editors for Windows - submit highlighted text?

Greetings,

I use S+, Stata, SAS and R depending on the weather...  The 
script file editors in S+, SAS and Stata all allow me to submit a 
portion of a developing script file to the running process. In R I have 
to use an external editor and either source the entire file or do lots 
of copy-and-pasting. Are there any editors out there which interface 
to R more closely and let me submit a section of code in one key 
(or mouse) stroke? Language-aware features would be nice as well! 
I know about EMACS/ESS but have never been able to get on with 
EMACS - when in Windoze I like my pointy-clicky interface!

Thanks for any pointers

Steve.

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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Steve Roberts wrote:
> I use S+, Stata, SAS and R depending on the weather...  The
> script file editors in S+, SAS and Stata all allow me to submit a
> portion of a developing script file to the running process. In R I have
> to use an external editor and either source the entire file or do lots
> of copy-and-pasting.
Not on Windows:  you can display a file in RGui, highlight a portion and
submit it (with ^V).  Any volunteers to make it editable?
> Are there any editors out there which interface
> to R more closely and let me submit a section of code in one key
> (or mouse) stroke? Language-aware features would be nice as well!
> I know about EMACS/ESS but have never been able to get on with
> EMACS - when in Windoze I like my pointy-clicky interface!
See http://cran.r-project.org/other-software.html

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"Steve Roberts" <steve.roberts at man.ac.uk> writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> I use S+, Stata, SAS and R depending on the weather...  The 
> script file editors in S+, SAS and Stata all allow me to submit a 
> portion of a developing script file to the running process. In R I have 
> to use an external editor and either source the entire file or do lots 
> of copy-and-pasting. Are there any editors out there which interface 
> to R more closely and let me submit a section of code in one key 
> (or mouse) stroke? Language-aware features would be nice as well! 
> I know about EMACS/ESS but have never been able to get on with 
> EMACS - when in Windoze I like my pointy-clicky interface!
Try a recent version of Emacs/ESS and use its pointy-clicky
interface.... 

There are syntax highlighters for other editors, but I doubt any can
work as closely with the R process as ESS can. 

Even if C-c C-r for "ess-eval-region" is too hard to remember,
there's a
menu entry for it in recent versions.

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Use WinEDT with R-WinEDT Extension on Windows ... !

| I use S+, Stata, SAS and R depending on the weather... The
| script file editors in S+, SAS and Stata all allow me to submit a
| portion of a developing script file to the running process. In R I have
| to use an external editor and either source the entire file or do lots
| of copy-and-pasting. Are there any editors out there which interface
| to R more closely and let me submit a section of code in one key
| (or mouse) stroke? Language-aware features would be nice as well!
| I know about EMACS/ESS but have never been able to get on with
| EMACS - when in Windoze I like my pointy-clicky interface!
|
| Thanks for any pointers

Yes, there is one very nice Editor for Windows that can do almost exactly
what you want. It is the WinEDT editor (http://www.winedt.com) that is
known especially in the TeX/LaTeX community for Windows.

There is an R-WinEDT extension available on CRAN at the Software->Other
page (http://cran.r-project.org/other-software.html) and I am really a bit
astonished this is not better known.

It lets you select text (or the whole file) in the editor that will be
executed from an open R process by just one mouse click.

WinEDT is shareware and there is a demo version available for 30 days (and
more), and it costs about $30. I would say it's worth the money anyway.

Hans W. Borchers

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I use the free version of Notetab (www.notetab.com) which supports
macros, and the macro file below. Ctrl-space (repeat last macro) will
send any highlighted text to an open GUI.


^!FocusDoc
;Save the file if it has been modified
;^!Save
;Select the highlighted block.
^!If ^$GetSelSize$ = 0 END ELSE SelectLines

:SelectLines
:GetSelection
^!Set %AnyText%=^$GetSelection$
;Write the selected text to a temporary file in the Windows temp. dir.
^!Set %fileName%=^$GetTmpPath$std0001.r
^!Set %fileName%=^$StrReplace(\;/;^%fileName%;True;False)$

^!TextToFile ^%fileName% ^%AnyText%
; Copy "source" to the clipboard
^!SetClipboard source("^%fileName%")
; Switch to R
^!FocusApp RGui*
;ESC to clear the Command window, paste the command, hit enter
^!Keyboard ESC
^!Keyboard CTRL+V
^!Keyboard ENTER


In addition, here my favorite reg-file to start R with right mouse button in
Explorer in a given directory

REGEDIT4


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Run R]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Run R\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\R\\rw1050\\bin\\Rgui.exe\"
--internet2"

Dieter Menne

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