Hi, What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, plus some other debugging functions. Yi-Xiong [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou wrote:> Hi, > > > > What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the > text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be > nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, > plus some other debugging functions. > > > > Yi-Xiong > >"best" is subjective, but (X)Emacs with ESS seems to be the most popular. See the following for more: http://cran.us.r-project.org/other-software.html --sundar
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:47, Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou wrote:> Hi,> What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the > text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be > nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, > plus some other debugging functions. > > Yi-XiongMore information is available at: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ Your e-mail headers suggest that you are using Windows. Thus, perhaps the two best choices (subject to challenge by others) would be: 1. R-WinEdt (Under IDE/Script Editors) 2. ESS for Windows The above two tools provide for a wide variety of functionality beyond syntax highlighting. There is a syntax highlighting file listed at the above site for jEdit. HTH, Marc Schwartz
I tried R-WinEdt a few years ago, but as I remember it interfered with my usual use of WinEdt which is as a front end to MiKTeX. Is there a way to use WinEdt both ways? Murray Jorgensen Marc Schwartz wrote:> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:47, Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou wrote: > >>Hi, > > >>What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the >>text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be >>nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, >>plus some other debugging functions. >> >>Yi-Xiong > > > More information is available at: > > http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ > > Your e-mail headers suggest that you are using Windows. Thus, perhaps > the two best choices (subject to challenge by others) would be: > > 1. R-WinEdt (Under IDE/Script Editors) > > 2. ESS for Windows > > The above two tools provide for a wide variety of functionality beyond > syntax highlighting. > > There is a syntax highlighting file listed at the above site for jEdit. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >-- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862
Uwe would be the authority on this 8-), but my impression is that if you keep two separate shortcuts, you should be fine. The one for R-WinEdt has flags that sets it up for R, which should not be used in the one for MikTeX. Andy> From: Murray Jorgensen > > I tried R-WinEdt a few years ago, but as I remember it > interfered with > my usual use of WinEdt which is as a front end to MiKTeX. Is > there a way > to use WinEdt both ways? > > Murray Jorgensen > > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:47, Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou wrote: > > > >>Hi, > > > > > >>What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am > using JEdit as the > >>text editor, however, it does not have anything specific > for R. It will be > >>nice to have a developing environment where the keywords > are highlighted, > >>plus some other debugging functions. > >> > >>Yi-Xiong > > > > > > More information is available at: > > > > http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ > > > > Your e-mail headers suggest that you are using Windows. > Thus, perhaps > > the two best choices (subject to challenge by others) would be: > > > > 1. R-WinEdt (Under IDE/Script Editors) > > > > 2. ESS for Windows > > > > The above two tools provide for a wide variety of > functionality beyond > > syntax highlighting. > > > > There is a syntax highlighting file listed at the above > site for jEdit. > > > > HTH, > > > > Marc Schwartz > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > > -- > Dr > Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html > Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand > Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 > Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >
I use WinEdt for both. I simply installed it twice, and set up one version for R and one for LaTeX, I have seperate icons on the desktop, with different names, and it works fine. HTH Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax)>>> maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz 07/07/04 7:37 PM >>>I tried R-WinEdt a few years ago, but as I remember it interfered with my usual use of WinEdt which is as a front end to MiKTeX. Is there a way to use WinEdt both ways? Murray Jorgensen Marc Schwartz wrote:> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:47, Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou wrote: > >>Hi, > > >>What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit asthe>>text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. Itwill be>>nice to have a developing environment where the keywords arehighlighted,>>plus some other debugging functions. >> >>Yi-Xiong > > > More information is available at: > > http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ > > Your e-mail headers suggest that you are using Windows. Thus, perhaps > the two best choices (subject to challenge by others) would be: > > 1. R-WinEdt (Under IDE/Script Editors) > > 2. ESS for Windows > > The above two tools provide for a wide variety of functionality beyond > syntax highlighting. > > There is a syntax highlighting file listed at the above site forjEdit.> > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide!http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >-- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862 ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
JEdit has an R syntax highlighting file at http://community.jedit.org. It is listed as a file pretty far down on the right side menus as "R Edit Mode - Extensive Version". Ben Stabler -----Original Message----- From: Yi-Xiong Sean Zhou [mailto:yzhou at sdsc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:48 PM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] text editor for R Hi, What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, plus some other debugging functions. Yi-Xiong [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html