[R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

[PIKAL Petr]

Hallo.

What about Tinn R
https://tinn-r.org/en/

It has syntax highlighting and you can easily send your whole code or its
part to R from it. 

Cheers
Petr


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Akhilesh Singh
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2022 3:20 PM
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> Subject: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the
like
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am a professor at Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur,
> Chhattisgarh, India. I have been teaching statistics in my department
since
> 1986.
> 
> Almost since the last 10 years, I have included R capabilities in doing
> practical-classes of various statistics courses in my department. I use
the
> default R-script editor that comes with RGUI.exe for that purpose. *But,
this
> text editor is too simple without syntax highlighting etc. And RStudio is
too
> heavy for the UG/PG level students who are basically from agriculture
> stream.*
> 
> Meanwhile, I came across a "rite" package which was earlier maintained by
> Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper using gmail.com>. Now, it has been put into
> archives and not being maintained by anyone.
> 
> At present, I am using the "rite" package for students' practical classes.
> But, I am facing difficulties using it. Sometimes, it hangs unnecessarily,
and
> some of its features do not work, probably because it is not being
> maintained anymore by CRAN.
> 
> Therefore, to remove this difficulty, the "rite" package must be
maintained.
> 
> 
> Sir, "rite" package is a very light weight editor for R codes suitable for
> teaching to beginner students, with syntax highlighting facility and with
the
> facility of generating reports into HTML, markdown etc.
> 
> Therefore, I request you ,*one and all who are in control, to kindly make
sure
> to include the "rite" package into the regular packages with proper
> maintenance, which will immensely help the beginner students to learn R*.
> 
> Or,
> 
> Kindly make sure that the *default R-script-editor gets the syntax
highlighting
> features and capability of creating basic reports*.
> 
> Or,
> 
> Kindly make a lighter version of RStudio *for beginner student-level only,
like
> the "rite" package,*  for executing R-scripts and for generating some
basic
> reports.
> 
> *In fact, the lack of a proper R-script editor is a major handicap among
the
> beginner students to learn R.*
> 
> Therefore, I earnestly request your kind attention to this problem.
> 
> Thaing you.
> 
> 
> Dr. A.K. Singh
> Professor and Ex-Head (Agricultural Statistics) Department of Agricultural
> Statistics and Social Science (L) Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya,
Raipur-
> 492 012, Chhattisgarh, India
> Mobile: +918770625795
> Email: akhileshsingh.igkv using gmail.com
> 
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