Since someone recently mentioned RStudio to me, I thought I would reactivate this thread in order to mention it:
http://www.rstudio.org/ Seems pretty cool if you want the full IDE experience. Dan On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Gang Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Good to know that. Thanks a lot, Yan Zhou! > > Gang > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yan Zhou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Holding the option key while selecting text, you can select the columns. >> This is built into the Mac OS X and available in many Mac "native" text >> editor like textmate, textwrangler, bbedit, etc, even the system's TextEdit >> can do that. >> >> Meanwhile Vim can do column selection with the blockwise-visual (CTRL-V is >> the default shortcuts). I don't use Emacs but heard it can do it, too. So >> select, copy paste and replace columns is nothing special at all. >> >> >> On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Gang Chen wrote: >> >> > I use nedit on daily basis because I usually run R on the Mac terminal or >> > X11, not in the R GUI window. One feature I like nedit most is that I can >> > select, copy, paste, and replace columns. Anybody know whether such a >> > feature is available in other editors such as TextWrangler? >> > >> > Thanks a lot for sharing the syntax highlighting file, Christian! I'll >> try >> > it out soon. Do you know if there is any way to execute a highlighted >> > portion of the R code in nedit? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Gang >> > >> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 AM, cstrato <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Dear All, >> >> >> >> Although this question was asked and answered many times, one editor was >> >> never mentioned: >> >> >> >> As a long-time Mac user I prefer "nedit" for the following reasons: >> >> >> >> - it was developed by people who wanted to have a Mac-like editor on >> Linux >> >> >> >> - it is almost as powerful as emacs but much easier to use and much >> faster >> >> >> >> - it has built-in syntax highlighting for many languages >> >> >> >> - it has also syntax highlighting for R, simply install "R-5.3.pats" >> >> (which I attach) >> >> >> >> - it is incredible fast, e.g.: >> >> >> >> -- it can open text files of sizes larger than 500 MB in few seconds >> >> (e.g. the Affymetrix annotation file >> >> HuEx-1_0-st-v2.na31.hg19.probeset.csv) >> >> >> >> -- searching such large files is also incredible fast >> >> >> >> -- it opens a C++ source code with 10,000 lines immediately (in >> >> contrast to emacs) >> >> >> >> For these reasons I use nedit daily since more than 10 years on both >> >> Linux and Mac. >> >> >> >> Best regards >> >> Christian >> >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >> >> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a >> >> V.i.e.n.n.a A.u.s.t.r.i.a >> >> e.m.a.i.l: cstrato at aon.at >> >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >> >> >> >> >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
