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Marc Feldesman
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I'm using version 1.1.1 under Windows NT and Windows 2000.  I'm unable to 
get any editor other than Notepad to work.  (I don't have use for any of 
the Unix editors - vi or Emacs) but would like to use EditPadPro, which has 
some nifty features, including the ability to spawn Rgui from within 
it.  (No syntax highlighting programmability yet, but maybe soon).  Anyway, 
I have editpadpro.exe in my path and have a fully specified path statement 
in options(editor=....).  The options statement "takes" fine, but when I 
attempt to use the editor, I get an error stating that R cannot load the 
editor.  I ran into a similar problem with an earlier version of R under 
Win 98, but I haven't tried it under either NT or Win2K.

Am I missing something, or does R not really spawn an external editor 
properly (or at all) under Windoze?



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Kjetil Kjernsmo
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Marc Feldesman wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I have no idea about the editor you mentioned, and I would still insist on
using Emacs, with ESS, it's all the front-end you'll ever need... :-) Are
you aware that Emacs runs under NT? 
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html>

Best,

Kjetil

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Uwe Ligges
    

    

      
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Marc Feldesman wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I have written an extension for the editor WinEdt. Everything works fine
on WinNT, if I use something like 
options(editor="\"c:/program files/winedt/winedt\" -Options")

Could you provide an example [option(.....) and error message]?

Uwe Ligges
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From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Kjetil Kjernsmo
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:37 PM
To: Marc Feldesman
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
I'm interested in other R/WinNT users experiences with ESS. I've tried to
setup EES under NT for R (and SPLUS) but if you don't already know Emacs
very well (I've used it as a text editor only) the startup curve seems very
very steep. Sounds like it is worth the time but I never seem to find it.

Tom

        
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Marc Feldesman wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
I have no idea about the editor you mentioned, and I would still insist on
using Emacs, with ESS, it's all the front-end you'll ever need... :-) Are
you aware that Emacs runs under NT?
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html>

Best,

Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo at astro.uio.no> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
...Except that ESS doesn't work on W2000 because Rterm doesn't, as
Brian and Guido brought up recently. If anyone has the capacity to
debug this, it would be most welcome.

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Yves Gauvreau
    

    

      
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Hi

I just want to point out an observation. I noticed that path strings under
Windows required that I double up the backslash "\" as it is used as an
escape character as in C. I think that most if not all of the "Unix tools"
ported to Windows accept path strings with a single backslash. I wonder if
it would be worthwhile to reproduce that behavior under R somehow? I mean
kind of preprocessing the params used as path strings transparently since
character vectors don't "escape" the backslash.

I understand it is much easier to require from users of R under Windows to
comply with it's path strings needs. Maybe it would be nice to just provide
a simple function in "base" for the sole purpose of translating Windows path
strings to the required form.

Just a though.

Yves Gauvreau



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From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "Marc Feldesman" <feldesmanm at pdx.edu>
Cc: "r-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 4:12 PM
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