You seem to mention both Linux and Windows. Emacs and XEmacs are both stable on both platforms, and I think most R developers use an emacs or vi variant for all their programming. I would not call emacs an IDE, but the main thing I find useful is to have a language-aware editor (syntax highlighting, indentation ...).
If you write a package you will also need an Rd editor, and emacs/ESS is probably the best supported of those. Later versions of precompiled emacs for Windows have existed, but I am running 21.3.1 (2002) on Windows and 21.4.1 on Linux: emacs itself is very stable. If you prefer a more graphical environment, XEmacs is a good alternative and despite its name has an active Windows version. On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, mel wrote: > Dear all, > > I have to develop a (hopefully) small package for R in C++. > I didn't code in C++ for some years, and i'm now searching > for an adequate IDE for this task. > > Some of my criterions : not proprietary, not too heavy, > open to linux, not java gasworks, still maintained, etc > > After looking on several places > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C%2B%2B_compilers_and_integrated_development_environments > http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppide.html > + R docs > I was thinking on code::blocks, and emacs (and perhaps vim) > > Emacs seems used by some R developers as an R editor. > So i did think on emacs because it could perhaps be interesting > to have the same editor for R code and C++ code. > > However, when looking at the last emacs windows version, > it seems to date from january 2004 ... (dead end ?) > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ > > I will be grateful for all advices on this tool topic. > Better choosing emacs ? or code::blocks ? > or another idea ? > Does somebody have an idea about the most used IDEs for > R C++ package writing ? > > Thanks > Vincent > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
