[R] using R under windows

[John Fox]

Dear Bill,

At 03:43 PM 11/20/2002 -0500, Simpson, William wrote:
>I am used to using R under unix. I have a problem with R under Windows-2000:
>Suppose I have a is a plain text file code.r full of R code that I want to
>source into R. My problem is that Windows invisibly tacks ".txt" onto the
>end of the filename (the name looks like code.r but it is really
>code.r.txt). How to get windows to both allow me to call it code.r (for
>real! Not code.r.txt) and to edit it as a text file by default (say with
>Notepad)?

When saving the file under Notepad, change the file type to "All files" so 
that Notepad doesn't screw with the extension. Alternatively, you could use 
a better editor, such as WinEdt or Emacs (there's information on the R 
website at <http://cran.r-project.org/other-software.html>).

Regards,
  John

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