Dear R experts, I wonder what IDE (Integrated development environment) you guys use to develop those awesome packages. I am trying to develop a package with lots of scripts in it but find myself have many windows of source scripts (each for a function) open in R GUI. I am trying an IDE called R Studio. It has great potential but currently the syntax colouring is very poor (black, blue, or green, that's it ...) and the tabs are not movable etc. Cheers, Yue

StatET for R is very nice plug-in for Eclipse which provides tools for coding, packaging, object browsing and so on... Cheers, Okko -- dipl.-inf. djork clevert | gleimstr. 13a | d-10437 berlin e: okko at clevert.de p: +49.30.4432 4702 f: +49.30.6883 5307 Am 02.05.2012 um 22:23 schrieb Yue Li: > Dear R experts, > > I wonder what IDE (Integrated development environment) you guys use to develop those awesome packages. > > I am trying to develop a package with lots of scripts in it but find myself have many windows of source scripts (each for a function) open in R GUI. I am trying an IDE called R Studio. It has great potential but currently the syntax colouring is very poor (black, blue, or green, that's it ...) and the tabs are not movable etc. > > Cheers, > Yue > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor

-----Original Message----- From: Yue Li Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:23 PM To: bioconductor at r-project.org Subject: [BioC] R IDE editor I am trying to develop a package with lots of scripts in it but find myself have many windows of source scripts (each for a function) open in R GUI. I am trying an IDE called R Studio. It has great potential but currently the syntax colouring is very poor (black, blue, or green, that's it ...) and the tabs are not movable etc. --------------------- Not that it's necessarily what you mean, but translating your literal complaint about syntax highlighting, you might not realize that: Tools | Options | Appearance lets you choose from several syntax highlighting options in RStudio. Agree that it would be nice to drag the order of the tabs around, but a workaround is to close tabs and open them in an appropriate order. I personally like the (installation ease)/functionality ratio of RStudio. RStudio is still very young, and the developers are very responsive to feedback and suggestions. Rob ------------------ ------------------------------------------ Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine A. T. Still University of Health Sciences 800 W. Jefferson St. Kirksville, MO 63501 660-626-2322 FAX 660-626-2965

emacs here with me. May not related with your situation. Wenhuo Hu On May 2, 2012 4:25 PM, "Yue Li" <gorillayue@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R experts, > > I wonder what IDE (Integrated development environment) you guys use to > develop those awesome packages. > > I am trying to develop a package with lots of scripts in it but find > myself have many windows of source scripts (each for a function) open in R > GUI. I am trying an IDE called R Studio. It has great potential but > currently the syntax colouring is very poor (black, blue, or green, that's > it ...) and the tabs are not movable etc. > > Cheers, > Yue > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I also use emacs. If you use emacs you will want to make use of ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) http://ess.r-project.org/ emacs is a highly customizable and programmable environment. If you haven't used it before you may find the learning curve a bit steeper than that for RStudio and Eclipse. One feature I find to be very helpful/powerful is the use of regular expressions for finding text or making substitutions. One can have multiple "frames" (independent windows), frames can be split horizontally or vertically multiple times to display different "buffers." One can have buffers that run a shell (e.g. bash) and easily copy and paste between buffers. I make extensive use of key bindings that allow me to use my function keys, in combination with the control, option and command (on mac) keys to access my most commonly used commands. I also use "abbrev_defs" to insert commonly used text sequences. One thing I plan to start using soon is "snippets" (from the yasnippet package) Does anyone on the list have a set of "snippets" they have developed for R that they would be willing to share to the list? I can share information about my R emacs addons. How would sharing of code or documents be best done? via a website, sharing google docs? I don't have time for infrastructure development, so something simple would be best. - Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Yue Li Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:23 PM To: bioconductor@r-project.org Subject: [BioC] R IDE editor I am trying to develop a package with lots of scripts in it but find myself have many windows of source scripts (each for a function) open in R GUI. I am trying an IDE called R Studio. It has great potential but currently the syntax colouring is very poor (black, blue, or green, that's it ...) and the tabs are not movable etc. -- Aaron Brandes Computational Biologist Broad Institute [[alternative HTML version deleted]]