Hi all, I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works well with R. At the present time I am running R on Windows and using TINN-R. For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but can't find much in the way of a text editor in sync with R. Any experiences, recommendations would be appreciated. Wade Wall [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Wade, I switched from R-Windows to R-Linux about 9 months ago and have had great success with GNU-Emacs with the ESS add-on. Your distro should have Emacs available for install, if it does not you can get the source at: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/ ESS can be found at: http://ess.r-project.org/ There is a special help-list for ESS at: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Good Luck, Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail (317) 204-4202 Home (no voice mail please) mwkimpel<at>gmail<dot>com ****************************************************************** Wade Wall wrote:> Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if > anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works > well with R. At the present time I am running R on Windows and using > TINN-R. For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but can't find > much in the way of a text editor in sync with R. Any experiences, > recommendations would be appreciated. > > Wade Wall > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS. Shige On Feb 2, 2008 11:06 AM, Wade Wall <wade.wall@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if > anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works > well with R. At the present time I am running R on Windows and using > TINN-R. For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but can't find > much in the way of a text editor in sync with R. Any experiences, > recommendations would be appreciated. > > Wade Wall > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 2/2/08, ??? <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:> On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS.Another text editor would be Bluefish. I believe it would lack functionality compared to the Emacs + ESS. Liviu
On 01/02/2008 11:49 PM, ??? wrote:> On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS.This discussion may be relevant: http://xkcd.com/378/ Duncan Murdoch
On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:06:38 am Wade Wall wrote: WW> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if WW> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works WW> well with R. Beside the aforementioned emacs+ESS there exists another good editor. You could use rkward which I would recommend over emacs if you are new to Linux: http://rkward.sourceforge.net/ Fedora and Ubuntu both have rkward packaged in their repositories. rkward look and feel is much closer to tinn-r (+ windows) world. rkward has (in my opinion): - a better highlightning, - multiple tabs, - it has auto-completition (of functions and objects), - copy paste works also with ctrl+c/ctrl+v (in emacs its different), - some common functions are offered via the menu's (for the non-purists), - html help is supported. - it allows editing data in a spreadsheet like environment - you can browse R objects (to avoid flaming: I know most of this is possible with emacs but maybe we agree that it is for a beginner not that easy to learn/configure) I was quite impressed of the advances rkward made during the last time so I switched 2 weeks ago from emacs to rkward... Cheers Stefan
I am in a similar situation and found that Kate combined with Konsole operates very much like Tinn-R. I actually use Kate for all interpreters like Python, R, and Octave under linux. Tom Wade Wall wrote:> > Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if > anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works > well with R. At the present time I am running R on Windows and using > TINN-R. For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but can't find > much in the way of a text editor in sync with R. Any experiences, > recommendations would be appreciated. > > Wade Wall > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/best-text-editor-for-Linux--tp15239201p15242799.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Saturday 02 February 2008 07:51:00 pm you wrote: FE> I'm using the standard Ubuntu debian repositories. FE> Frank FE> Try the 0.4.9 etch package from the project: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50231&package_id=43758&release_id=568604 for gutsy the latest package is 0.4.7 which is rather old. In 0.4.8 was following fixed: "fixed: would not work with R 2.6" (maybe that is the problem) That is what I do not like about ubuntu, they do not make version updates even when some big problems are solved by the updates. alternatively you could use the hardy (next ubuntu version) repository either via synaptic or the package (for the 0.4.9 package): http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/math/rkward download and then double click should be enough... Hope that helps Stefan
Two small points for this discussion. Emacs + ESS is brilliant, but it does require some investment of time for people to become comfortable with it. You really need to grok Emacs first. It is protable across platforms, as pointed out below, but if you are trying to get a neophyte class on side in quick time, it is not a viable option. A little bird tells me that a Linux port of Tinn-R is being developed now. In the longer term, this would give a great portable solution, but I have no information on progress or anticipated release date. (And no, I won't say who is doing it...) Anyway, just as real programmers use Linux, real neophytes use Windows, don't they? Bill. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Goulet Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2008 11:00 PM To: ??? Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Wade Wall Subject: Re: [R] best text editor for Linux? Le sam. 02 f?vr. ? 05:49, ??? a ?crit :> On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS.To me, an added bonus of Emacs + ESS is that you can remove the "On Linux platform", above. Emacs is one of the very few (only?) programmer's text editor with a good R mode that runs on all platforms where R runs: Unix/Linux, Windows (http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/emacs) and MacOS (http://aquamacs.org). On whatever platform I need to work, I can use the same tools. Furthermore, M-w and C-y are the *correct* keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste! :-D See also Section 6 of the R FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-Emacs Wade, when you write: "I want to switch to Linux, but can't find much in the way of a text editor in sync with R", you didn't look very hard, now did you? ;-) HTH Vincent> > > Shige > > On Feb 2, 2008 11:06 AM, Wade Wall <wade.wall at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering >> if >> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that >> works >> well with R. At the present time I am running R on Windows and using >> TINN-R. For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but >> can't find >> much in the way of a text editor in sync with R. Any experiences, >> recommendations would be appreciated. >> >> Wade Wall >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.--- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor ?cole d'actuariat Universit? Laval, Qu?bec Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Wade Wall wrote:> Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if > anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works > well with R. At the present time I am running R on Windows and using > TINN-R. For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but can't find > much in the way of a text editor in sync with R. Any experiences, > recommendations would be appreciated. > > Wade Wall > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help w r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >I can suggest also JGR package which give yo very good standalone interface (you cannot start terminal) with color syntax for all installed packages, active tips after typing funcion name, runnig any fragment of code directly from editor, obiect brownser etc. very nice tool... but..... It is java-dependend and there are lots of problems with installing it - like most of the java dependend tools. For example I installed it without problem on one machine, beside on other almost the same I recive error. No one can tell me why (i.e why it is differend). Addationally like all others java programs it is extremly slow and resorce consumed. Jarek