Michael,
Where can we read you document that includes "various ideas
going far beyond simply embedding R"? What about Julian's
opinion that Tinn-R is more stable and loads more quickly
than jEdit? Can that be true in a Windows environment?
-John Thaden
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:25:12, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> I think a better idea would be to make a jEdit plugin
> that embeds an R console component (perhaps the one from
> JGR, but the last I checked it was not embeddable,
> unfortunately). Anyway, it would be easy enough to roll your
> own by extending the existing jEdit Console plugin using JRI.
> I would have done that ages ago, but I'm still hoping that
> JGR could be leveraged in some way.
> In my opinion, jEdit has a very clean design (at both the UI
> and the API level) as do several of the important plugins
> (ie Console). One can actually run R inside the jEdit console,
> but it does not echo your commands, which hinders its usability.
> I haven't used Tinn-R much since it is not cross-platform.
> Also, I prefer to use the same editor for all my work, beyond R,
> and I'm not sure if Tinn-R would be up to that task (but as
> I've said I haven't used it much).
> If anyone wants to work with me on providing an R support
> plugin for jEdit, I'd be open to starting the project. I've
> already written a document with various ideas, which goes far
> beyond simply embedding R. The editor-centric mode of using
> R is obviously very popular and useful, but, at least in my
> opinion, no editor does a great job at it on all platforms.
Michael
On 10/24/07, Julian Burgos <jmburgos@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>> I used jEdit, but I'm not sure if there is a 'ctrl-R'
option available.
>> I eventually switched to Tinn-R, which is an editor customized for
R
>> (although it can be used for other languages) and does provide the
>> connection to R you are looking for. Also (I think) loads faster
and it
>> is more stable than jEdit.
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> threshold wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I just installed jEdit but have no clue, whether I can run my
code a'la
>>> "ctrl-R" directly from jEdit script, or should source
it from R command
>>> line, after saving it first in jEdit.
>>>
>>> thanks for any help,
>>> rob
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