best editor for .R files
An extensive review of text editors for different platforms is at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html It's geared to Stata users but contains relevant information for R users as well. Personally, I use TextPad for Windows. It has syntax highlighting, regular expression search and replace, selection of rectangular blocks of text. You can run programs from within TextPad and if the output file has been opened it's automatically updated if you submit the syntax again, a very useful feature I found. Good luck, John Hendrickx
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On the Windows platform, I use SourceEdit which also has R syntax highlighting (and much more) (http://www.brixoft.com/). However, as an organization, we do have plans to look at the IDE Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/ ) Partha "Angel" <angel_lul at hotmail.com> Sent by: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 11/20/2003 04:27 PM To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> cc: Subject: [R] best editor for .R files Which is the best editor for .R files? I currently use kate on my linux as it has R highlighting and allows me to split the window into two: in one I edit the .R file and in the other I have a shell so I run R and can easily copy and paste the code. There are some features that I don't like and I am having a look on some alternatives. I've heard wonders of emacs with ess but I am a little bit frightened of the steep learning curve. What do the R experts use or would recommend using? Both linux and/or windows alternatives are welcomed. I guess it would much depend on the particular needs/preferences of each user but I would like to know which are the most commonly used editors. Thanks, Angel
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