On 11/26/2005 4:53 PM, Walter R. Paczkowski wrote: > Hello, > > I changed the setting in options$editor to allow me to use my favorite > editor. In R 2.1.1 on Windows XP, I entered at the command line: > > options(editor="c:\\program files\\winedit\\winedit.exe") > > When I edited a function, say test, using fix(test), the editor opened > perfectly. But, when I saved the file and closed the editor, the R gui > screen was white, blank, and completely unresponsive. The only thing I could > do was close R by clicking on the "X" in the upper right corner of the > window. How can I use my editor but be able to continue using R after I > close the editor? What extra setting am I missing?
This sounds like you didn't really close your editor. R isn't smart enough to know that the editor closed a file, it can only see when the process finishes. I'd recommend using the RWinEdt package instead for a different way to integrate winedit with R. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
