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Do any of you know any simple programming editors for R scripts which offer basic colour-coding and bracket-matching facilities? Dregging through scripts to find a missing comma or parentheses is something I'd rather do less of... Jon Minton [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, is there a platform independent way to log a complete R session (input + output + warnings + errors + ???) into a text file? I can use sink(file, split=T) and savehistory() but it is quite cumbersome to merge the files and still there is some loss (eg. warnings). I wondered that I only found this thread from 2003(!) related to this topic:

# Your mailer is set to "none" (default on Windows), # hence we cannot send the bug report directly from R. # Please copy the bug report (after finishing it) to # your favorite email program and send it to # # r-bugs@r-project.org # ###################################################### <<insert bug report here>> There are two bugs associated with graphics devices.

After the discussions about appropriate editors under Windows to use with R, I have managed to install Emacs, XEmacs, and ESS under WinNT 4.0, and these work fine. It's not necessary to compile anything to use R with ESS, just to install Emacs and ESS, and do a few modifications in some files. XEmacs is also easy to install but apparently ESS cannot run with it (confirmed by a message by Tony