[ESS] Emacs/ESS is missing that feature

[Stephen Eglen]

>  > usually not familiar with the different summaries and likes to see the
>  > data.  In these situations, I (far too) often write data to a csv which
>  > I than open in a spreadsheet program.
>
>  > I would love to see a better possibility to present a larger data set
>  > from within emacs.  Ideally without leaving ess, or via the csv route.
>
> This is a dream project for me. Proper data handling and manipulation
> with slicing/reshaping/viewporting + plot and generation of summaries. I
> never started it as it would require a considerably more advanced
> sub-process communication protocol than what we have now in
> ESS. Something along swank or, better, nrepl. This is a priority
> project. 

I had the pleasure of meeting Christophe yesterday (thanks Christophe
for visiting!), and he gave me a great demo of swankr (R in SLIME).  It
certainly points to the next generation of what is possible with
interaction in R.
  http://common-lisp.net/~crhodes/swankr/


What is nrepl -- and why would it be better?  From my limited searching,
it is a repl for clojure, but do you think it would be better choice for
a next generation ESS?

Stephen