[R] good editor for R sources ?

[Paul Smith]

On 4/26/05, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> > > > (Sorry if the question has already been answered.)
> > > > Could someone please suggest a good text editor for
> > > > writing R sources ?
> > > > (I know emacs exists ... but I find it a bit heavy).
> > > > I use crimson (http://www.crimsoneditor.com) which is
> > > > small and simple, but the R syntax seems not to be supported.
> > >
> > > See http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/projects/Editors.html
> > > The page tells us that there is support for Crimson editor.
> >
> > And for Linux, what do you recommend?
> 
> Tere are suggestions on that page that Uwe mentioned above for Linux!
> First choice would be (X)Emacs/ESS.  Then there are also vim, kate,
> bluefish, ...

Thanks, Andy. Does somebody know how to install ess on xemacs?

Paul