[Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?

Hin-Tak Leung hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk
Fri Feb 23 14:39:43 CET 2007


I don't know if ess runs under xemacs, but historically,
xemacs (a fork of the emacs code) had windows support earlier than
gnu emacs did, and obviously, it is still being worked on
as the last version is December 2006.

http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/

HTH

mel wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have to develop a (hopefully) small package for R in C++.
> I didn't code in C++ for some years, and i'm now searching
> for an adequate IDE for this task.
> 
> Some of my criterions : not proprietary, not too heavy,
> open to linux, not java gasworks, still maintained, etc
> 
> After looking on several places
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C%2B%2B_compilers_and_integrated_development_environments
> http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppide.html
> + R docs
> I was thinking on code::blocks, and emacs (and perhaps vim)
> 
> Emacs seems used by some R developers as an R editor.
> So i did think on emacs because it could perhaps be interesting
> to have the same editor for R code and C++ code.
> 
> However, when looking at the last emacs windows version,
> it seems to date from january 2004 ... (dead end ?)
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/
> 
> I will be grateful for all advices on this tool topic.
> Better choosing emacs ? or code::blocks ?
> or another idea ?
> Does somebody have an idea about the most used IDEs for
> R C++ package writing ?
> 
> Thanks
> Vincent
> 
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