On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
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.
Just a tiny, technical side-comment: it uses a separate process for
R which has serious technical implications (you can't use any GUIs,
external UI libraries, or even native devices like Quartz for
example - it leads to crashes).
Can you expand on that, Simon? Crashes when using Quartz would seem
like an immediate deal-breaker for Mac OS X users. Does that mean that
ordinary plotting calls would cause crashes?
I was assuming that users of RStudio would not be also using other
GUI's, but I do not know whether I am using "external UI libraries" in
my typical R activities using rms/Hmisc/survival. Is this in reference
to packages such as rgl that invoke libraries such as GTK? Are Rattle
or rggobi precluded as packages?
--
David.
We have tried that long time ago with the first Cocoa GUI but
quickly abandoned that path. It works well for sandboxed environment
(e.g. as a server) but not for a local GUI. That said, it is a very
impressive attempt to learn from the rich history of all the R GUIs
created so far.
Back to the original thread, though, thanks to Hans-Joerg Bibiko who
did a great job there will be a big overhaul of the R Mac GUI for R
2.13.0 with a new editor.
Cheers,
Simon
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
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