I'd like to add that everyone is highly encouraged to test the 2.13.0 alpha -- available at http://r.research.att.com/ which contains all the changes Hans mentioned (and implemented ;)).
Cheers, Simon On Mar 18, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: > > On 12 Mar 2011, at 14:32, [email protected] wrote: > >> Just wondering: I actually like the current editor. Is the new version a >> 'superset,' i.e. I won't lose any of the tools or features (auto-indent, >> bracket matching, etc) of the current editor? Or will there be any sort of >> option to use the older vsn? > > Please be assured that you won't loose any features you're familiar with. > Just the opposite is the case. We fixed several general issues regarding to > the entire document handling, we're now using a very fast syntax highlighting > approach (lexer) which make it easier to edit larger R scripts, we added a > new line numbering approach with the feature to select lines if you click > (or/and drag) into the gutter, improved the issue to use different encodings, > we added a better code completion (rcompgen), function hints in the status > bar now follows the cursor, etc., and in the near future we'll add more > features to make it much easier to create/edit/... R code. > > Kind regards, > --Hans > > ********************************************************** > Hans-Joerg Bibiko > Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology > Department of Linguistics > Deutscher Platz 6 phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 341 > D-04103 Leipzig fax: +49 (0) 341 3550 333 > Germany e-mail: bibiko[AT]eva.mpg.de > > _______________________________________________ > 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
