Hello Ecolog, I got a bunch of responses to my question about R text editors, and I was asked to share the responses with the list. The main result is that most people prefer TextWrangler (and there are some plug-ins to make it interface with R, see below). Also, the preferred paid choice is TextMate. Thanks for all the responses!
Cheers, Emma Editor Number of Replies Cost Website TextWrangler 5 0 http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler eMacs 1 0 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Komodo with Sciviews 1 0 http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K/ Eclipse 1 0 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ Gedit 1 0 http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing/gedit.shtml Notepad++, darwine, NppToR 1 0 ?? Many BBEdit 1 0 http://www.barebones.com/ TextMate 2 $54 http://macromates.com/ This is the most complete answer about TextWrangler, thanks to Karthik Ram: As an R nerd I can tell you that TextWrangler ( http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ is more or less the best (and free) R editor for osx. After installing TextWrangler, open R, then its preferences, and set Textwrangler as your default editor. After that whenever you press command + N from R, then it will automatically open TextWrangler. Another nice thing about TW is that it will open all the same files that were open when the app was last open. Next grab a R syntax highlighter for TW here: http://dataninja.wordpress.com/2006/02/28/r-language-module-for-textwrangler-and-a-lot-of-other-editors/ Finally, grab this applescript ( http://www.ai.rug.nl/~jpborst/macsci/files/textwrangler_and_r.php<http://www.ai.rug.nl/%7Ejpborst/macsci/files/textwrangler_and_r.php>) and install it by following the instructions. Then you can just type some code in TW, select it, and hit command + Enter and it will automatically get sent to R. You can keep TW and R open side by side and that works great. Hope this helps. -- Karthik Ram -- Emma L Aronson PhD Candidate University of Pennsylvania Department of Biology Leidy Labs #329 433 S. University Ave. [email protected]
