Stefan Grosse wrote: > On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:06:38 am Wade Wall wrote: > WW> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if > WW> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works > WW> well with R. > > Beside the aforementioned emacs+ESS there exists another good editor. You > could use rkward which I would recommend over emacs if you are new to Linux: > > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/ > > Fedora and Ubuntu both have rkward packaged in their repositories.
I have tried installing rkward on three different ubuntu systems and have never gotten past this error: rkward /usr/bin/rkward.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/rkward.bin: undefined symbol: R_LastvalueSymbol Frank Harrell > > rkward look and feel is much closer to tinn-r (+ windows) world. > > rkward has (in my opinion): > - a better highlightning, > - multiple tabs, > - it has auto-completition (of functions and objects), > - copy paste works also with ctrl+c/ctrl+v (in emacs its different), > - some common functions are offered via the menu's (for the non-purists), > - html help is supported. > - it allows editing data in a spreadsheet like environment > - you can browse R objects > > (to avoid flaming: I know most of this is possible with emacs but maybe we > agree that it is for a beginner not that easy to learn/configure) > > I was quite impressed of the advances rkward made during the last time so I > switched 2 weeks ago from emacs to rkward... > > Cheers > Stefan > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.