IDE for R C++ package writing ?
You seem to mention both Linux and Windows. Emacs and XEmacs are both stable on both platforms, and I think most R developers use an emacs or vi variant for all their programming. I would not call emacs an IDE, but the main thing I find useful is to have a language-aware editor (syntax highlighting, indentation ...). If you write a package you will also need an Rd editor, and emacs/ESS is probably the best supported of those. Later versions of precompiled emacs for Windows have existed, but I am running 21.3.1 (2002) on Windows and 21.4.1 on Linux: emacs itself is very stable. If you prefer a more graphical environment, XEmacs is a good alternative and despite its name has an active Windows version.
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, mel wrote:
Dear all, I have to develop a (hopefully) small package for R in C++. I didn't code in C++ for some years, and i'm now searching for an adequate IDE for this task. Some of my criterions : not proprietary, not too heavy, open to linux, not java gasworks, still maintained, etc After looking on several places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C%2B%2B_compilers_and_integrated_development_environments http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppide.html + R docs I was thinking on code::blocks, and emacs (and perhaps vim) Emacs seems used by some R developers as an R editor. So i did think on emacs because it could perhaps be interesting to have the same editor for R code and C++ code. However, when looking at the last emacs windows version, it seems to date from january 2004 ... (dead end ?) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ I will be grateful for all advices on this tool topic. Better choosing emacs ? or code::blocks ? or another idea ? Does somebody have an idea about the most used IDEs for R C++ package writing ? Thanks Vincent
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