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
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