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R editor in ubuntu!

14 messages · Mehdi Zarrei, Jonas Josefsson, Dirk Eddelbuettel +6 more

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Jonas Josefsson
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I can recommend RKWard which is more than an editor but is great. There 
is also an option to patch gedit to send commands, but it was to much of 
a hassle to set up to be of interest to me at least.

Jonas

2010-10-05 15:52, Mehdi Zarrei skrev:
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:52:53AM -0700, Mehdi Zarrei wrote:
1.  See R FAQ, Section 6 at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-Emacs
    and do 'apt-get install emacs23 ess'

2.  If Emacs isn't to your liking, try 'apt-get install kate' as one of the many alternates.

3.  There is a dedicated list 'r-sig-debian' for Debian/Ubuntu. Subscribe, and post follow-ups there.

Dirk
Kjetil Halvorsen
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emacs23+ess is great BUT there is a very large problem which is
driving me away from it:
(on ubuntu) since version 23, emacs has a very problematic bug, which
I have reported as:

bug#6193: emacs 23 in ubuntu 10.04 gnu linux:
black lines overwrite text!

but the emacs devs does'nt seem to respond. This makes in practice
emacs23+ess UNUSABLE until fixed.

Kjetil
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
Laurent Gatto
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Dear Kjetil,

On 5 October 2010 15:12, Kjetil Halvorsen
<kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote:
Am a bit surprised here, as I am happily running emacs 23 (23.1.1 with
GTK+ user interface to be precise) and ess on ubuntu 10.04 and I do
not have any problem.

Laurent
Kjetil Halvorsen
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see below.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Laurent Gatto <laurent.gatto at gmail.com> wrote:
I am glad to here that, but it does'nt help me;!

The problem with black lines overwriting text in emacs mostly occurs
if I have a high memory load (maybe around 1 GB used on this 2GB
system), mostly from other programs running (Firefox, document viewer, others..)

?can you try that?

Kjetil
Laurent Gatto
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On 5 October 2010 15:29, Kjetil Halvorsen
<kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote:
This is a bit vague to reproduce, but I surely already ran into
similar situations were I was running short on RAM and did not have
any black lines overwriting the text. Again, I'm not very helpful I'm
afraid, but at least you know that it works smoothly on similar
systems...

Laurent

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Oct 5, 2010, at 16:29 , Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Ouch! However, it sounds like an X11/font/memory/display type issue, and could well be unique to your hardware.

One generic "fix" is to run emacs -nw in a terminal window. You'll lose the friendly menu bar and have to remember a bunch of keyboard shortcuts, but some of us did this for quite a while...

-pd

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Christopher W Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Another alternative is to use Geany [1]. It would save you the trouble
of learning Emacs, and I find it better designed for code editing than
Gedit. If you're a beginner, you might appreciate JGR and it's
internal editor (plus Deducer for GUI).

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://www.r-bloggers.com/integrating-r-with-geany/

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Mehdi Zarrei <gagzarrei at yahoo.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
There is a wiki page on the subject [1].

Everyone: Please contribute your favorite editor to that list.

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:using-gui:find_gui

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Erik Iverson
    

    

      
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/s/save/deprive
/s/trouble/thrill

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      Kjetil Halvorsen
    

    

      
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I really like emacs+ess, so getting that to work again
is the preferred solution...

Kjetil

        
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Kjetil Halvorsen
    

    

      
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Forgot ... The best thing with emacs , it that it has modes for close
to everything, so you don'nt need to
learn new editors for whatever strange projecy you start.

By the way, i installed eclipse to try it out. It is way of biggish...

Kjetil

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen

        
<kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote: