Scripting with an external editor

Raubertas, Richard · 2003-04-02T20:26:13Z

A.J. Rossini writes: > From: rossini at blindglobe.net [mailto:rossini at blindglobe.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:28 PM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > > "Prof. Brian Ripley" writes: > > > I think the `trick' is how text for parsing is sent to R, > and the answer > > is via the command line, using C redirection (and ptys under Unix). > > I've already suggested that approach a week ago. > > This is exactly it -- ESS works by sitting on top of R's I/O

Raubertas, Richard

Wed, Apr 2, 2003 12:26 PM

A.J. Rossini writes:

Perhaps because some people (myself included) find Emacs a
really unpleasant editor to use.  (Not implying this is the
case for the person who started this thread, however.)  I know 
it is hard for the Emacs zealots to comprehend.

Having the ability to pipe selections from, say Nedit, directly
to the R command line would be nice.  It's absence is not 
enough to make me switch editors though.

Rich Raubertas

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