Syntax Highlightning and Editor for Linux

I would like oto thank everyone for the replies.
I instaled rkward.. It looks like an editor.. Is it possible to execute

also your code from the text editor.

If there is a function call myfunc inside my file test.R
Is it possible to exectute the function from the rwkard?

Best Regards
Alex

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*From:* Federico Andreis <federico.andreis at gmail.com>
*To:* Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
*Cc:* Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com>; r-help at r-project.org
*Sent:* Fri, July 23, 2010 3:46:08 PM
*Subject:* Re: [R] Syntax Highlightning and Editor for Linux

I have been trying emacs with ess, Kate, plain gedit..nothing really
satisfied me..
but then I found a nice plugin for gedit: Rgedit !

it supports split screen with R terminal window (you can also
personalize colour if, like me, do like to
stick with old habits :) ), moreover gedit has a brackets completion and
a brackets highlight plugin which are very useful.

check it out here

http://www.stattler.com/article/using-gedit-or-rgedit-r

<http://www.stattler.com/article/using-gedit-or-rgedit-r>simple "send
code to terminal" shortcuts (much simpler than emacs, in my opinion) and
nice interface..give it a try!

/federico


On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com
<mailto:r.m.krug at gmail.com>> wrote:

On 23/07/2010 14:17, Alaios wrote:

I would like to thank you for your immediate reply.
Actually I do not like vim and emacs.. I am trying to find an

editor with a gui

that will work fine in Linux.

Well - you are missing out with not using emacs + ess - but it is quite
a learning curve. Despite this:

Try rkward - syntax highlighting and many other nice features.

Another option: eclipse with statet plugin(
http://www.walware.de/goto/statet)

Cheers,

Rainer

One more question. If I am editing a file using my external text

editor is it

possible to execute directly one of the functions that are inside

the file

without executing the source("myfile.R") command first?

Best Regards
Alex

----- Original Message ----
From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com

<mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>>

To: alaios <alaios at yahoo.com <mailto:alaios at yahoo.com>>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org <mailto:r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 2:13:48 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Syntax Highlightning and Editor for Linux

On 23/07/2010 8:08 AM, alaios wrote:

 Hello to the community .
First post :)
I would like to ask you which text editor do you use in Linux and

how did

you setup the syntax highlightning?

I don't use Linux, but I think the most popular editors there are

vim and emacs,

the latter with ESS.

one more question is it possible to debug any program in R by

inserting

breakpoints?

Yes, see the setBreakpoint() and trace() functions.

Duncan Murdoch

I would like to thank you in advance for your help
Best Regards
Alex