[R] editor for MacOS X

[Blanchette, Marco]

Carbon emacs ( http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html) using the ess-mode ( http://ess.r-project.org/). Amazingly good integration of different buffer types for different tasks. You can have your R session running in a buffer, a .R buffer where you edit your functions/sources and with very simple key strokes you can send/run lines, functions or full buffer into the running R session. Great integration of the help pages too.

This as become my central environment where I do all my computing work, programming (perl, python, etc...), shell work, R jobs, MySQL work etc... In addition, your Mac can be configure to run emacs remotely as a client on any other type of machine. For instance, at home, on my PC or on my Mac, I can fire up an SSH connection from either X11 or PuTTY to the Mac desktop in my office, then fire up emacs from the terminal, et voila! I am running jobs on the computer in my office (which as 8 core and 32Mb of RAM) from the same environment as I normally used in my office (can be a bit bandwidth intensive though).

You should also check the noweb mode ( http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/) for integrating codes and documentation, pretty cool.

Cheers,

Marco


On 11/28/08 7:55 AM, "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

Dear Bunny,

I've been using Eclipse with the StatET plug-in
<http://www.walware.de/goto/statet> under both Windows and Mac OS X. Eclipse
+ StatET provides much more than a code editor, such as the ability to check
and build packages and to interact with an svn archive. On the downside, it
requires quite a bit of configuration.

I hope this helps,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


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> Hi all,
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> just wondered again, if there is some R editor for Mac OS X comparable
> to TINN-R on windows.
>
> thx in advance..
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