Linux user asks: What about that Editor you have built-in. Can we compile it too?
Paul, Hopefully someone with knowledge of Emacs & ESS & R on Linux will help you first! I would guess recompiling just the Editor is virtually impossible. R.app, in which the Editor is embedded, is Cocoa based. It would be a major undertaking to port R.app or at least major parts of it (and subsequent maintenance). E.g. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/resources/BookClarifications.html talks about some of the issues. And there is a 3rd edition of the Hillegass book. If the Emacs/ESS issues absolutely cannot be resolved, maybe a more feasible/easier route would be to use tcl/tk, like John Fox has done in Rcmdr. Maybe start-off with something like MetPad? Not simple either, but doable. Rob
On May 15, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I use Linux only and have been teaching students with Emacs & ESS. Lately, we've had some troubles with that combination that are not solved, and it has caused me to look about for alternatives. One of my students has a Macintosh and he showed me that the R that he installed came with an editor that does what we need. The command-shift sends lines over. So I started to wonder: why can't we compile that Editor in Linux? If a Mac is really BSD Unix with a layer of libraries, it should be possible. There are GNUstep libraries to duplicate much of the NextStep framework, but I have not studied enough on current Mac systems to know how close we might be to building the Mac R editor along with R itself. I've been Googling and searching in this lists archive and don't find much discussion on this. If anybody has ideas about whether this is possible, please advise. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
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