R editor for Mac

On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:

Since someone recently mentioned RStudio to me, I thought I would
reactivate this thread in order to mention it:

http://www.rstudio.org/

Seems pretty cool if you want the full IDE experience.

Just a tiny, technical side-comment:  it uses a separate process for R which has serious technical implications (you can't use any GUIs, external UI libraries, or even native devices like Quartz for example - it leads to crashes).

Can you expand on that, Simon? Crashes when using Quartz would seem like an immediate deal-breaker for Mac OS X users. Does that mean that ordinary plotting calls would cause crashes?

I was assuming that users of RStudio would not be also using other GUI's, but I do not know whether I am using "external UI libraries" in my typical R activities using rms/Hmisc/survival. Is this in reference to packages such as rgl that invoke libraries such as GTK? Are Rattle or rggobi precluded as packages?

-- 
David.

We have tried that long time ago with the first Cocoa GUI but quickly abandoned that path. It works well for sandboxed environment (e.g. as a server) but not for a local GUI. That said, it is a very impressive attempt to learn from the rich history of all the R GUIs created so far.

Back to the original thread, though, thanks to Hans-Joerg Bibiko who did a great job there will be a big overhaul of the R Mac GUI for R 2.13.0 with a new editor.

Cheers,
Simon

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Gang Chen <gangchen at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

Good to know that. Thanks a lot, Yan Zhou!

Gang

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yan Zhou <zhouyan at me.com> wrote:

Holding the option key while selecting text, you can select the columns.
This is built into the Mac OS X and available in many Mac "native" text
editor like textmate, textwrangler, bbedit, etc, even the system's TextEdit
can do that.

Meanwhile Vim can do column selection with the blockwise-visual (CTRL-V is
the default shortcuts). I don't use Emacs but heard it can do it, too. So
select, copy paste and replace columns is nothing special at all.


On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Gang Chen wrote:

I use nedit on daily basis because I usually run R on the Mac terminal or
X11, not in the R GUI window. One feature I like nedit most is that I can
select, copy, paste, and replace columns. Anybody know whether such a
feature is available in other editors such as TextWrangler?

Thanks a lot for sharing the syntax highlighting file, Christian! I'll

try

it out soon. Do you know if there is any way to execute a highlighted
portion of the R code in nedit?

Cheers,
Gang

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 AM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:

Dear All,

Although this question was asked and answered many times, one editor was
never mentioned:

As a long-time Mac user I prefer "nedit" for the following reasons:

- it was developed by people who wanted to have a Mac-like editor on

Linux

- it is almost as powerful as emacs but much easier to use and much

faster

- it has built-in syntax highlighting for many languages

- it has also syntax highlighting for R, simply install "R-5.3.pats"
(which I attach)

- it is incredible fast, e.g.:

-- it can open text files of sizes larger than 500 MB in few seconds
  (e.g. the Affymetrix annotation file
HuEx-1_0-st-v2.na31.hg19.probeset.csv)

-- searching such large files is also incredible fast

-- it opens a C++ source code with 10,000 lines immediately (in
contrast to emacs)

For these reasons I use nedit daily since more than 10 years on both
Linux and Mac.

Best regards
Christian
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