[R] Suggestions for statistical computing course

[Vikas Rawal]

> 2. I do most of my work in R using Emacs and ESS. That means that I
>    keep a file in an emacs window and I submit it to R one line at a
>    time or one region at a time, making corrections and iterating as
>    needed. When I am done, I just save the file with the last,
>    working, correct (hopefully!) version of my code. Is there a way of
>    doing something like that, or in the same spirit, without using
>    Emacs/ESS? What approach would you use to polish and save your code
>    in this case? For my course I will be working in a Windows
>    environment. 

I do this with kate on linux. Kate has a konsole window in which I run
R, and then pipe the lines from the editor to konsole. You can easily
define a shortcut key to pipe the lines/regions to konsole.

Vikas