[R] best text editor for Linux?

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

Two small points for this discussion.

Emacs + ESS is brilliant, but it does require some investment of time for people to become comfortable with it.  You really need to grok Emacs first.  It is protable across platforms, as pointed out below, but if you are trying to get a neophyte class on side in quick time, it is not a viable option. 

A little bird tells me that a Linux port of Tinn-R is being developed now.  In the longer term, this would give a great portable solution, but I have no information on progress or anticipated release date.  (And no, I won't say who is doing it...)

Anyway, just as real programmers use Linux, real neophytes use Windows, don't they?

Bill.

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Goulet
Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2008 11:00 PM
To: 宋时歌
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Wade Wall
Subject: Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

Le sam. 02 févr. à 05:49, 宋时歌 a écrit :

> On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS.

To me, an added bonus of Emacs + ESS is that you can remove the "On  
Linux platform", above. Emacs is one of the very few (only?)  
programmer's text editor with a good R mode that runs on all platforms  
where R runs: Unix/Linux, Windows (http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/emacs)  
and MacOS (http://aquamacs.org). On whatever platform I need to work,  
I can use the same tools. Furthermore, M-w and C-y are the *correct*  
keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste! :-D

See also Section 6 of the R FAQ:

	http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-Emacs

Wade, when you write: "I want to switch to Linux, but can't find much  
in the way of a text editor in sync with R", you didn't look very  
hard, now did you? ;-)

HTH

Vincent

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> Shige
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> On Feb 2, 2008 11:06 AM, Wade Wall <wade.wall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering  
>> if
>> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that  
>> works
>> well with R.  At the present time I am running R on Windows and using
>> TINN-R.  For a number of reasons I want to switch to Linux, but  
>> can't find
>> much in the way of a text editor in sync with R.  Any experiences,
>> recommendations would be appreciated.
>>
>> Wade Wall
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