Also of note is JGR, which has syntax highlighting, paren matching. You can also send to R via command-return. And if your students have mice for right hands as Jay put it, Deducer (shameless plug) has integrated dialogs for most basic statistical tasks.
Ian ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stuart Wagenius [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] text editor for teaching R Oh yes. Very nice. Thank you for your help! Stuart On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:22 PM, G. Jay Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stuart, > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Greg Snow <[email protected]> wrote: >> In windows, the simplest editor to use is the built in one in the R gui. >> Just click on file, then New Script and it will open a blank editor (or use >> open script to read in a file). This is a pretty basic editor, it does not >> do syntax highlighting, paren matching an several other things that are nice >> in Tinn-R, ESS/emacs and others. >> >> But one really nice thing is that you can highlight a section of code and >> just click a single button on the toolbar and the highlighted code will be >> copied to the command line and run. Or without a selection, the same button >> will run the current line and advance to the next line (so clicking the >> button several times runs the next several lines of code). >> >> And you don't have to install anything besides R. >> >> Hope this helps, >> > > > I had to delete most of my reply because Greg Snow said it better than me. > :-) > > I have also used Emacs/ESS for upper-division students; you didn't > mention the level of your classes. If your students are introductory > and have grown up clicking buttons then it will be painful for them. > But Emacs/ESS is very stable, easy to install and setup via Vincent > Goulet, has syntax highlighting, automatic spacing, code completion, > can handle R transcripts... the list goes on and on... > > I would not recommend Emacs/ESS for freshmen who have mice for right > hands, but anything over the introductory level has been fine for me > (or even introductory if your students are sharp). > > Good luck, > Jay > > > > > > *************************************************** > G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics & Statistics > Youngstown State University > Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA > Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall > Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) > -3302 Department > -3170 FAX > VoIP: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] > http://people.ysu.edu/~gkerns/ > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
