R help - Oct 2008 - What editors can I get R in Mac OS X to talk to?

All,

    Apologies if this was already answered... I couldn't find an answer that
specifically addressed Mac OS instead of either windows or linux.  I use
"aquamacs emacs" as my text editor.  It is essentially Xemacs with a
GUI
that looks closer to standard Mac GUIs, as far as I can tell.  I installed
the GUI-friendly Mac version of R.  I can have R choose the aquamacs as the
editor of choice, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do any script
executions.  E.g., highlighting part of the script and then hitting CTRL-R
or something similar to get just a portion of the script to run.
    I would install ESS, since I know that is supposed to help emacs talk to
R, but I have no confidence that it either (a) works for the Mac (if so, do
I install the unix version?  if I do that, can I only run it on my Mac via
the unix command calls?), or (b) works with the aquamacs editor.  I don't
care about the editor so much, I could find a less fancy text editor.  But I
don't really know how to install ESS properly on a mac.

                           Thanks in advance!
                                       Mike

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Hi,

I use Textmate, but every now and then I like to try out aquamacs.
I've just downloaded it from  < http://aquamacs.org/ >, where ESS is  
part of the package. It runs flawlessly for me, out of the box. I just  
opened a r file, clicked the big R icon, then simply highlighted part  
of the code and Cc-Cr to evaluate it. For some reason the default  
graphics device turned out to be x11() but that's a minor detail to  
configure.

Baptiste

(R7.2, MBP, Leopard)




On 23 Oct 2008, at 09:36, Mike Williamson wrote:
> All,
>
>    Apologies if this was already answered... I couldn't find an  
> answer that
> specifically addressed Mac OS instead of either windows or linux.  I  
> use
> "aquamacs emacs" as my text editor.  It is essentially Xemacs
with a
> GUI
> that looks closer to standard Mac GUIs, as far as I can tell.  I  
> installed
> the GUI-friendly Mac version of R.  I can have R choose the aquamacs  
> as the
> editor of choice, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do any script
> executions.  E.g., highlighting part of the script and then hitting  
> CTRL-R
> or something similar to get just a portion of the script to run.
>    I would install ESS, since I know that is supposed to help emacs  
> talk to
> R, but I have no confidence that it either (a) works for the Mac (if  
> so, do
> I install the unix version?  if I do that, can I only run it on my  
> Mac via
> the unix command calls?), or (b) works with the aquamacs editor.  I  
> don't
> care about the editor so much, I could find a less fancy text  
> editor.  But I
> don't really know how to install ESS properly on a mac.
>
>                           Thanks in advance!
>                                       Mike
>
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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_____________________________

Baptiste Augui?

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Phone: +44 1392 264187

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mike Williamson wrote:
> All,
>
>    Apologies if this was already answered... I couldn't find an answer
that
> specifically addressed Mac OS instead of either windows or linux.  I use
> "aquamacs emacs" as my text editor.  It is essentially Xemacs
with a GUI
> that looks closer to standard Mac GUIs, as far as I can tell.  I installed
> the GUI-friendly Mac version of R.  I can have R choose the aquamacs as the
> editor of choice, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do any script
> executions.  E.g., highlighting part of the script and then hitting CTRL-R
> or something similar to get just a portion of the script to run.
>    I would install ESS, since I know that is supposed to help emacs talk to
> R, but I have no confidence that it either (a) works for the Mac (if so, do
> I install the unix version?
Yes, it works, and yes install following the unix instructions:

 	http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/Manual/readme.html#Unix-installation


if I do that, can I only run it on my Mac via
> the unix command calls?), or (b) works with the aquamacs editor.
It will work either way. However, running emacs in a terminal window has 
some annoyances.

In aquamacs, you might want to disable clover-Q and clover-P if the clover 
key sits next to the meta key and if your fingers are a clumsy as mine - I 
was constantly killing sessions or starting the print dialog when all I 
wanted was to fill-paragraph or recall the last command via 
comint-previous-input.

HTH,

Chuck

p.s. Mac stuff should go to R-sig-mac.



I don't
> care about the editor so much, I could find a less fancy text editor.  But
I
> don't really know how to install ESS properly on a mac.
>
>                           Thanks in advance!
>                                       Mike
>
> 	[[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.
>
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