R editor for Mac

Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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Kristina

The mac installation of R comes with a brilliant script editor built right in.

Just start R, choose file->new to open a script and you are away. 

There is line numbering, coloured context for functions etc, smart brackets and quotes and keystrokes to send the code you select to the console:

cmd+return to send selected text or the line you are on.

You've got all you need to get started quickly (and perhaps all you need), courtesy of the excellent development team for the mac.

Good luck.
Andrew
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Andrew Beckerman
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK

a.beckerman at sheffield.ac.uk
http://www.beckslab.staff.shef.ac.uk



On 26 Jan 2011, at 20:16, Kristina Krsteva wrote:

Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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I agree the built-in editor works well.

I?ll add that I work entirely in Textmate.

In addition to the built-in editor?s features such as command execution, it offers

Flexible execution (run in R.app; run in a daemon, return to clipboard, return to this document, return as tool-tip etc
Snippets (your own tab-completable smart-typing function insertion)
Commands: convert a list of numbers to an Rvector  or matrix; drop-down menu for par() parameters (cmd-;)? the list is endless and incredibly helpful
Code-folding (so you can collapse long function etc.
Wide choice of syntax highlighting schemes



On 26 Jan 2011, at 8:27 PM, Andrew Beckerman wrote:

Kristina

The mac installation of R comes with a brilliant script editor built right in.

Just start R, choose file->new to open a script and you are away. 

There is line numbering, coloured context for functions etc, smart brackets and quotes and keystrokes to send the code you select to the console:

cmd+return to send selected text or the line you are on.

You've got all you need to get started quickly (and perhaps all you need), courtesy of the excellent development team for the mac.

Good luck.
Andrew
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Andrew Beckerman
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK

a.beckerman at sheffield.ac.uk
http://www.beckslab.staff.shef.ac.uk



On 26 Jan 2011, at 20:16, Kristina Krsteva wrote:

Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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cheers,
tim

Timothy   Bates
Professor of Individual Differences in Psychology
University   of   Edinburgh
7 George Square EH8 9JZ
+44.131 651 1945


-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

One can also use aquamacs with ESS: http://aquamacs.org/features.shtml, but I find it quite slow compared to the built-in editor. 

--
Christophe Dutang
Ph.D. student at ISFA, Lyon, France
website: http://dutangc.free.fr

Le 27 janv. 2011 ? 11:10, Timothy Bates a ?crit :

I agree the built-in editor works well.

I?ll add that I work entirely in Textmate.

In addition to the built-in editor?s features such as command execution, it offers

Flexible execution (run in R.app; run in a daemon, return to clipboard, return to this document, return as tool-tip etc
Snippets (your own tab-completable smart-typing function insertion)
Commands: convert a list of numbers to an Rvector  or matrix; drop-down menu for par() parameters (cmd-;)? the list is endless and incredibly helpful
Code-folding (so you can collapse long function etc.
Wide choice of syntax highlighting schemes



On 26 Jan 2011, at 8:27 PM, Andrew Beckerman wrote:

Kristina

The mac installation of R comes with a brilliant script editor built right in.

Just start R, choose file->new to open a script and you are away. 

There is line numbering, coloured context for functions etc, smart brackets and quotes and keystrokes to send the code you select to the console:

cmd+return to send selected text or the line you are on.

You've got all you need to get started quickly (and perhaps all you need), courtesy of the excellent development team for the mac.

Good luck.
Andrew
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Andrew Beckerman
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK

a.beckerman at sheffield.ac.uk
http://www.beckslab.staff.shef.ac.uk



On 26 Jan 2011, at 20:16, Kristina Krsteva wrote:

Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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cheers,
tim

Timothy   Bates
Professor of Individual Differences in Psychology
University   of   Edinburgh
7 George Square EH8 9JZ
+44.131 651 1945


-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Hi Kristina,

The standard R.app is really everything you need. Build in syntax highlighting, command forwarding, function preview, package installation, managing, and loading etc. makes working with it really easy. However, if you still insist on an "external" editor try JGR (read JaguaR).

All the best
Gerald

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Institute for Management of Rural Areas
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of Rostock
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+49 381 4983222 (fax)


Am 26.01.2011 um 21:16 schrieb Kristina Krsteva:

Hello,

I have never used R before and I need to use it for a time series graduate
course AND i have a mac. I know tinn-R is a great text editor for R that
works on Windows but is there anything comparable to it for a Mac? I have
read multiple threads and my current findings are that there is really
nothing like tinn-R for a mac and that TextMate comes close (but
unfortunately this costs), some have said that they like the internal editor
as well. I would like to use a more "user-friendly" editor, if possible, and
I've been searching for hours now trying to figure out what to download and
start learning, until I stumbled upon this mailing list and was wondering if
someone could guide me and tell me what would be the most feasible option
for an editor and save me some time:)

Thank you so much,
k

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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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Dear Gang,

No, I do not know how to execute a highlightedR code, but it may be
possible since nedit can execute commands and macros. If someone has  
an
idea, I would be interested, too.

Best regards
Christian

On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:47 PM, cstrato wrote:

Dear Gang,

No, I do not know how to execute a highlightedR code, but it may be
possible since nedit can execute commands and macros. If someone has an
idea, I would be interested, too.

You could check whether the appropriate modification to the AppleScripts
presented at Dietrich's webpage for TextWrangler and SubEthaEdit would
do the trick:

http://www.formatio-reticularis.de/r-mac-editor.html

Best regards
Christian