There's been requests in the past for a text editor built into the Rgui for Windows, from which code can be submitted to the R console. Something along the lines of the script editor in S-Plus. Currently Rgui can only display a file read-only in a pager. As far as I can tell there's been little motivation to implement an editor, as most developers use (the excellent) ESS, or don't use Windows. I also use ESS, but the students here are taught S-Plus and learn to use the .ssc editor.
It may be of interest that our group is working on a GUI for R written in Java, i.e. it should be platform independent (at least we plan to support Windows, Mac and Linux). Among many other features this GUI includes such an script editor as described above. Data set editor mentioned in other posts in this thread is included, too. We are of course open for any further ideas or wishes. The official release is planned for the useR! 2004 conference in Vienna.
Simon
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