Hi everyone, I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?) What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal). Thanks! -Steve _______________________________ Steven Wolf Research Associate CREATE for STEM Institute 115 H Erickson Hall Michigan State University
Have you looked at aquamacs? (emacs for the mac). its at aquamacs.org. albyn On 2012-09-26 17:48, Steven Wolf wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might > call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I > started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to > like > it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options > are > for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux > before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember > fighting > pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that > intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?) > > What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm > probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 > or > Terminal). > > Thanks! > -Steve > > _______________________________ > Steven Wolf > Research Associate > CREATE for STEM Institute > 115 H Erickson Hall > Michigan State University > > ______________________________________________ > 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 Sep 26, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Steven Wolf wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?) > > What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal).Probably best in the future to post to R-SIG-Mac. The editor in the Mac-GUI works well. Has parenthesis, bracket and ellipsis matching which is very helpful. Also tab-completion thanks to the continuing effors to Simon Urbanek and Hans-Joerg Bibiko and probably others whose contributions are too subtle for for my aging brane. You can also get R-specific macro behaviors with TextWrangler. The default editor defined by options() is "vi" which has many powerful features as well. (I do not think I am interacting with 'vi' inside the editing panels that pop up from the GUI, although I would be happy to be corrected on this point.) Emacs is a UNIX standard and the Mac is yet-another-Unix-boxen. Many Mac users are also happy with R-Studio. -- David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA
On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Steven Wolf wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?)Further point. Just as with Windoze, your dot-files are hidden by Finder.app. You can see them with terminal or do as I do and unhide them (and never trash any). Run this in a terminal session: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES # and <pt>-click-hold> on Dock-Finder-icon, choose relaunch> > What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal). > > Thanks! > -Steve > > _______________________________ > Steven Wolf > Research Associate > CREATE for STEM Institute > 115 H Erickson Hall > Michigan State University > > ______________________________________________ > 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.David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA
My vote for R-Studio. Very elegant design and great functionality. However if coming from languages like Java and others then eclipse is better. R-Studio have dedicated section for Mac user which you will find useful. Best Regards, Bhupendrasinh Thakre Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Steven Wolf <wolfste4 at msu.edu> wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?) > > What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal). > > Thanks! > -Steve > > _______________________________ > Steven Wolf > Research Associate > CREATE for STEM Institute > 115 H Erickson Hall > Michigan State University > > ______________________________________________ > 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 27-09-2012, at 02:48, Steven Wolf <wolfste4 at msu.edu> wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?) > > What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal).You could also take TextMate into consideration. There is version 1.5: stable and excellent. With very good support for R with an R bundle. Works nicely in Mountain Lion as long as you turn off smooth scrolling (via Terminal). It also has a commandline tool to start the application. There is now also an alpha version of TextMat 2. I don't use it yet. Berend
Hello, I am not a Mac user, but I use Eclipse+StatET in both Windows and Linux, and it is the best IDE (not just text editor) for me. It supports code syntax, R and Sweave editors, object explorer, document outline, debugging, ... Besides, Eclipse has other plugins that may be useful for some tasks in R (web programming, xml, LaTeX, ...) http://www.walware.de/goto/statet It is supposed to run also in Mac, but I have not tested it. Good luck! Emilio L. Cano 2012/9/27 Steven Wolf <wolfste4 at msu.edu>:> Hi everyone, > > I've recently moved from using a windows machine to a Mac (some might call it an upgrade, others not?I'll let you be the judge). Once I started using Notepad ++ on my windows machine, I really began to like it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the free text editor options are for the Mac (Notepad ++ is windows only). I've dabbled with Linux before and used Emacs/ESS there. However, I seem to remember fighting pretty hard to make that work and the OSX file structure isn't that intuitive to me yet. (For example, where is my .emacs file?) > > What text editors are best for the Mac, keeping in mind that I'm probably going to use them via the command line interface (e.g. X11 or Terminal). > > Thanks! > -Steve > > _______________________________ > Steven Wolf > Research Associate > CREATE for STEM Institute > 115 H Erickson Hall > Michigan State University > > ______________________________________________ > 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.-- _____________________________________ Emilio L. Cano +34 665 676 225 Department of Statistics and Operations Research Universidad Rey Juan Carlos