On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 22:09 +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/5/07, Christian Salas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if you know of a linux editor that is able to run R and > > compile LaTeX files from it. > > Well, there is Winefish for LaTeX and Bluefish for R. The former is > based on the latter. Not exactly one editor, but you may be interested > in looking at them both. Maybe they have plugins or something. > > Regards, > Liviu
The only thing that Bluefish supports is syntax highlighting for R code. It does not support the submission of the code to an R process, though you can of course C&P to a console session running R or source() the file. Nor does it support things like tab completion and many other functions that make an editor like Emacs with ESS efficient for R. I wrote the initial syntax highlighting templates for R in Bluefish four or five years ago, when I was looking for an editor on Linux that supported anti-aliased fonts. It was one of very few at the time that did. Even gedit, the default GNOME text editor, has R syntax highlighting now. Syntax highlighting is only part of the battle in looking for a more productive environment however. I switched over completely to Emacs/ESS when better fonts (ie. Bitstream) became available and I have not looked back since. I now use Emacs 23 with ESS, Auctex, the Emacs Code Browser and other functions (eg. gnus, Org-mode, etc.) on Fedora. I will acknowledge bias, but I don't think that you will find a more productive environment for R coding than the combination of Emacs and ESS. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.