script editor

Hi folks,

I currently use and enjoy emacs with ess on Ubuntu Linux.  I really  
like it because it provides tool such as coloring of comments, quotes,  
functions in different colors of text.  It has parentheses matching.   
And it also allows for sending lines, sections or entire buffers of  
commands to R for execution.  You can find info on ESS including the  
previously mentioned Windows version at:

http://ess.r-project.org/

I do think it is noteworthy to point out that there are multiple  
'flavors' of emacs out there which I have yet to really figure out  
(e.g., emacs, xemacs).  Some of these provide the traditional (Unix)  
key bindings for copy & paste, which to most Windows users will appear  
confusing.  I am currently using a version of emacs which appears to  
be version 22.1.1 which claims to have been 'modified by Ubuntu' which  
allows ctrl-c ctrl-v copy and paste.  This makes transition from  
Windows much easier.

In short, emacs is very powerful but will probably appear complicated  
to new users.  There are ways around this and it is worth the effort  
to learn the key bindings if you use R frequently.

-- 
Brian J. Knaus
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Oregon State University
2082 Cordley Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-2902
http://oregonstate.edu/~knausb


Quoting Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk>:

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 07:36 -0700, Christian A. Parker wrote:

I also like Tinn-R on a windows machine.

But I have another question, Ive recently switched one of my computers
over to Ubuntu (Linux). Currently I am just using Kate+Konsole and to be
honest it works great accept for the lack a send lines command. So I was
wondering if anyone out there knew of a sendlines mod for Kate

Kate has the Pipe to console menu item, which works either by sending
the whole buffer or by sending the highlighted region. You can assign
this a shortcut under the Settings Menu > Configure Shortcuts..., find
the relevant command, click the image of the keyboard key and add in a
keyboard short cut of your choosing. Make sure you don't overwrite
anything useful - I just tried this with Alt+R.

Now you can use (e.g.) Alt+R to pipe regions or the whole buffer to the
konsole running at the bottom of the screen. Just start R in the
embedded konsole first and it is read to be piped to.

or had
some advice or knew of a tutorial for EMACS+ESS for the reluctant Tinn-R
user?

Personally I use Emacs+ESS on my Fedora boxes, but I still can't
remember how to copy/paste all the time using Emacs commands... so not
the best person to be providing advice.

G

-Chris

ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:

Here's another fan of TINN-R. The TINN-R website suggests a few line of
code to add into the Rprofile file which causes TINN-R to launch as soon
as you start up R. Furthermore it has syntax highlighting that works for
brackets too (display what opening bracket corresponsed with a closing
bracket). And one can define shortcutkeys for sending code to R.

Let's say that I don't want to miss TINN-R for all R, S+, Latex, Sweave,
HTML and PHP stuff.

Cheers,

Thierry

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ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics,
methodology and quality assurance
Gaverstraat 4
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Belgium
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Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be
www.inbo.be

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than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to
say what the experiment died of.
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~ Roger Brinner

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
data.
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[mailto:r-sig-ecology-bounces at r-project.org] Namens Dave Hewitt
Verzonden: woensdag 23 april 2008 15:07
Aan: r-sig-ecology at r-project.org
Onderwerp: Re: [R-sig-eco] script editor

Does anyone have a recommendation for an R script editor that can be

run on

a pc?

I also like Tinn-R. It's simple and easy to use. Just in case this will
save you
a bit of frustration, be sure to install R in SDI mode (choose custom
installation in the Install Wizard to get the option). The default is
MDI mode
and Sci-Views says new Tinn-R versions don't play well with R. I've
never tried
it, so I don't know what happens if you use MDI mode.

One handy feature of Tinn-R (and probably other editors) is that you can
click
the R-> icon on the upper right to launch R. That passes your current
working
directory to R when it loads up, so you never need full path names in
data read
statements. Just put the .R script and the data in the same directory,
open
Tinn-R by double-clicking the .R script, and then launch R from Tinn-R.

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