[R] R editor for Mac

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 19:06:24 CET 2016


On 20/01/2016 1:28 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 20/01/2016 1:22 PM, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you please suggest a good R editor for Mac OS X (10.7.5)
> > Previously my operating system was Windows and there I used Notepad++,
> > I really had very nice experience with it. However I dont see any Mac
> > version is available for Mac.
> >
> > Appreciate your positive feedback.
>
> RStudio is probably best on both OS X and Windows.    A nice advantage
> is that it looks the same on both, so you can move back and forth.
>
> I only know two negatives:
>
>    - I still don't like the tiled window.  I often work on a small
> screen, and it's not enough space.
>
>    - The editor still changes file endings to native format whenever it
> saves.  It would be better if it handled both Windows and Unix line
> endings in both systems, and left them alone unless the user asked them
> to be changed.

I've just heard offline from JJ Allaire that both negatives above have 
been addressed in a version soon to be released.   Excellent news!

Duncan Murdoch



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