[ESS] Emacs/ESS is missing that feature
Andreas Leha
andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de
Fri Jul 12 23:32:48 CEST 2013
Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
> >> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de>
> >> on Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:45:19 +0200 wrote:
>
> > Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> writes:
> >>> 2. decent support to display large tables/data.frames (or .csv files)
> >>
> >> Did you try C-c C-d C-e?
> >>
> >> C-c C-d C-e runs the command ess-describe-object-at-point, which is an
> >> interactive compiled Lisp function in `ess-help.el'.
> >>
> >> It is bound to C-c C-d e, C-c C-d C-e.
> >>
> >> (ess-describe-object-at-point)
>
> > [...]
>
> > Yes, I am aware of that function and I do indeed use that extensively.
>
> > For me, these summaries, head, etc suffice and are more than handy.
>
> > But still, while discussing my analyses with the client, the client is
> > 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.
That project sounds exciting. I remember some thread on a slime like
interface a few months back [fn:1]. But admittedly all of that is way
over my head...
>
> Another project, for which I already have a name, ess-analyze, is an
> menu/keyboard/helm/yas driven statistical analysis toolboxes,
> incorporating, for begging, the functionality available in R-commander
> and Deducer, but without annoying menus and click-button interfaces.
>
Again really exciting!
>
> As to image in emacs, it should be indeed easy, now that emacs builds
> with image-magic it is really worth a serious try.
>
Thanks for all this outlook on cool things that might come to ESS
sooner or later!
Regards,
Andreas
Footnotes:
[fn:1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/5605/focus=5606
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