[R] best text editor for Linux?
Stefan Grosse
singularitaet at gmx.net
Sat Feb 2 13:10:56 CET 2008
On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:06:38 am Wade Wall wrote:
WW> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if
WW> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works
WW> well with R.
Beside the aforementioned emacs+ESS there exists another good editor. You
could use rkward which I would recommend over emacs if you are new to Linux:
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/
Fedora and Ubuntu both have rkward packaged in their repositories.
rkward look and feel is much closer to tinn-r (+ windows) world.
rkward has (in my opinion):
- a better highlightning,
- multiple tabs,
- it has auto-completition (of functions and objects),
- copy paste works also with ctrl+c/ctrl+v (in emacs its different),
- some common functions are offered via the menu's (for the non-purists),
- html help is supported.
- it allows editing data in a spreadsheet like environment
- you can browse R objects
(to avoid flaming: I know most of this is possible with emacs but maybe we
agree that it is for a beginner not that easy to learn/configure)
I was quite impressed of the advances rkward made during the last time so I
switched 2 weeks ago from emacs to rkward...
Cheers
Stefan
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