Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-26 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, But there's also fortunes::fortune(59) Rui Barradas Às 23:35 de 25/05/2022, Rolf Turner escreveu: On Wed, 25 May 2022 03:31:36 + "Ebert,Timothy Aaron" wrote: Though Excel has a macro feature where you can code in Excel Please see fortunes::fortune(198).

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-24 Thread Sorkin, John
An interesting thread that perhaps, at this time, needs to be put to bed. j From: R-help on behalf of Avi Gross via R-help Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:25 PM Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-24 Thread Avi Gross via R-help
This is changing from a discussion about the rite of passage for non-programmers using the defunct "rite" editing software by a software wright who no longer writes, to talking about finding the right software for the purpose. Kidding and wordplay aside, both public and private software is not

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Soren Hojsgaard had also written a tcltk based editor R package and although it is deprecated too it may be simpler than rite in which case it is more likely to work. Contact him (he has other packages on CRAN) and see if he would send it to you and if it fits your needs. On Sun, May 22, 2022 at

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-23 Thread Rasmus Liland
On 2022-05-23 17:37 +0100, Rui Barradas wrote: | And about an editor no one mentinoed, | vim. Hear, hear, +1 for vim  I use vim in st[1], and run Rscript everytime my long script changes using entr[2] Also, ess I think might be good.[3] I was able to install rite locally from github

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Dewey
Notepad++ is fine as a light weight editor with syntax highlighting but the plug-in for R does not seem to have been updated for years. Michael On 23/05/2022 17:37, Rui Barradas wrote: Hello, I was also thinking about Notepad++. And about an editor no one mentinoed, vim. I've learned vi on

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-23 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, I was also thinking about Notepad++. And about an editor no one mentinoed, vim. I've learned vi on unix SVR3 and at least in micros it is all present, you can bet that no matter what the OS is there's a version for it. vim is lightweight and has syntax highlighting but its aging

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-23 Thread CALUM POLWART
As has been said, it's not for R CRAN to fix. This is open source code. If the package maintainer is no longer keen anyone can fork the code, maintain it and release it back to Cran and provided it meets their rules it would be available for all. (If it doesn't you just need to provide the install

Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

2022-05-23 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Would you reconsider RStudio? If this is a person's first experience with a computer or cell phone then RStudio is a bit much. Relative to using a browser, MSWord, Excel, or many of the modern video games RStudio is simple. I have seen beginning R courses start at the level of print("Hello