[R] package: RWinEdt question

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 22:44:13 CEST 2014


On 06/07/2014, 4:35 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> The RWinEdt package does not support WinEdt 8.x yet.
> 
> Versions 5.x and 6.x shoudl be supported. Not sure about 7.x.
> Unfortunately, the trick to get it working changes with each version of 
> WinEdt these days ... Well, I may be too bad in WinEdt macro programming...
> I do notn have the new versions available, hence hard time to get the 
> plugin running without a WinEdt version to test it ...

I gave up on trying to support WinEdt with my patchDVI package because
of these constant incompatible changes.  Nowadays I recommend that my
students use RStudio and/or TeXWorks.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> On 06.07.2014 19:34, Mari wrote:
>> I just upgraded WinEdt from 5.2 to 8.2. With the older version, invoking library(RWinEdt) started a new instance of WinEdt identified by "R-WinEdt" as the title. This way, I was able to separate R work from other editing work with two instances of WinEdt running.
>>
>>
>> However, with the newer version of WinEdt, this no longer seems to be the case. If I already have WinEdt running for editing, say tex files, typing library(RWinEdt) in R does not start a new instance of WinEdt.
>> I guess what I need is to figure out how to supply the argument -c="R-WinEdt" to the WinEdt.exe command when in R.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for any suggestions.
>>
>> -Mari
>>
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