On Friday 23 February 2007 15:52, Marc Schwartz wrote: > In addition to Prof. Ripley's comments, which I wholeheartedly support, > I might point you to some additional tools, that enhance the use of > Emacs for coding. > > I am running Emacs (alpha version 23 from cvs source) under Linux and > while I do not do C, C++ or FORTRAN coding, these tools have > dramatically improved my coding productivity when using R and Sweave (R > + LaTeX) along with ESS and other standard Emacs tools such as > Auctex/Preview-Latex. > > > 1. ECB - Emacs Code Browser > > http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ > > > 2. psvn - A Subversion interface for emacs > > http://www.xsteve.at/prg/vc_svn/ > > > Both of the above, especially if you integrate version control using > Subversion, greatly enhance the functionality of Emacs as an IDE. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz
Just a minor addition to Marc's comment: if you edit Python code, you might experience short, but frequent, freezes of Emacs that are related to a problem with semantic (a package on which ECB depends). I've not seen these with R (or C/C++ or LaTeX). With that minor caveat, I find ECB is a great tool that works out of the box with R. Best, R. > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:17 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > 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_d > > >evelopment_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 -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Statistical Computing Team Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) (Spanish National Cancer Center) Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid (Spain) Fax: +-34-91-224-6972 Phone: +-34-91-224-6900 http://ligarto.org/rdiaz PGP KeyID: 0xE89B3462 (http://ligarto.org/rdiaz/0xE89B3462.asc) **NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD** Este correo electrónico, y en s...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
