On Monday 26 February 2007 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > First, great thanks to all for all the answers. I confess i was a bit > > scared about (re)learning a possible tomorrow obsolete tool. > > > > I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R > > package developers use emacs ? > > Plenty of folks don't use an IDE at all. Copy/pasting working bits of > code from your .Rhistory into a working file is a very useful tactic...
You kidding, right? (I mean, maybe lots of people do that, but maybe that ain't such a good idea :-). R. P.S. Whether or not emacs + ess + ecb + a whole bunch of other things is or not a "real IDE" (whatever that means) I think is tangential to the original question. The issue, if I understand, are editing tools that will make the editing et al. simpler. So > > I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R > > package developers use emacs ? > No. Not 100%. But you said you'll be using Windows but want to move to GNU/Linux. Then, you might want to use the very same tool over a range of OSs, or regardless of whether you are in front of your workstation, or accessing it over a slow modem connection, etc. In such cases, Emacs is an excellent choice. Or one of the very, very few. In addition, I think you are seeing an example of "once you try emacs, you often realize that other choices do not really offer you all that much, but you loose a lot". HTH, R. > > --e > > ______________________________________________ > 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
