R help - Jul 2008 - setting editor environment variable EDITOR either when configuring R for installation or in .Rprofile

I'm running R on Linux and use emacs as my editor. When doing
"edit(vignette(foo.vignette))" I would like to invoke emacs rather
than the
default vi. I am able to manually set this by editing $R_HOME/etc/Renviron
but would like to avoid doing this with each install. I assume this can be
accomplished with a flag to .configure or in .Rprofile but I can't find the
syntax in R-admin. Editor is not listed as an environment variable in
appendix B of that manual.

So, help is appreciated as I've probably missed something.
Mark

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on 07/30/2008 12:54 PM Mark Kimpel wrote:
> I'm running R on Linux and use emacs as my editor. When doing
> "edit(vignette(foo.vignette))" I would like to invoke emacs
rather than the
> default vi. I am able to manually set this by editing $R_HOME/etc/Renviron
> but would like to avoid doing this with each install. I assume this can be
> accomplished with a flag to .configure or in .Rprofile but I can't find
the
> syntax in R-admin. Editor is not listed as an environment variable in
> appendix B of that manual.
> 
> So, help is appreciated as I've probably missed something.
> Mark
> 
Mark,

See ?options for 'editor'. This is also referenced in ?edit, where the 
default value for the 'editor' argument is
getOption("editor").

Thus, in your .Rprofile, put:

   options(editor="emacs")

HTH,

Marc Schwartz