Syntax coloring in R console
Dear January, Have a look at Eclipse with the STAT-ET plugin http://www.walware.de/goto/statet Best regards, Thierry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] Namens January Weiner Verzonden: vrijdag 1 april 2011 15:48 Aan: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Onderwerp: Re: [R] Syntax coloring in R console
Recently RStudio was introduced [1] and, although beta, it received quasi-unanimous acclaim from the community, so you risk finding it useful too.
Dear Liviu, RStudio might be a fine program, but it does not feature syntax highlighting, which is the only thing I am missing from R Console (it only colors the commands typed). Moreover, the very idea of squeezing all R windows into one "window-desktop" would be counterproductive in my particular case. Thank you anyways! j.
[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/rstudio/about Regards Liviu
I tried JGR, the GUI for R, but I have found the following
problems
with this package: - I was not able to change the background color from a repulsive grey, - apparently, GNU readline is not implemented in that
package, that
is, there is no functionality similar to ctrl-r (which searches through the history for matching commands), something I use frequently, and - tab expansion is of limited use (e.g. doesn't browse
files in the
current directory when expanding quoted arguments e.g. in "read.table"). All in all, I'd be happy to continue using the plain R
console, but
syntax highlighting would be nice. Any advice would be extremely welcome. Kind regards, January
sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25) Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: ?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 ? ? LC_MONETARY=C ?[6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 ? ?LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?
methods ? base
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