Dear all, I am a happy user of R console, but I would like to see syntax coloring. I use R 2.12 in Ubuntu Linux.
I have found the packages "xterm256" and "highlight", but I was not able to figure out how to use it to highlight the syntax in console output. Also, I tried several GUI interfaces, but I was not able to find something that suits me better than the default R console. R cmdr is definitely not for me, as I don't want to fundamentally change the way I am managing my data in R. Rkwrd seems to be nice (from screenshots), but its installation requires all the base KDE libraries, which I don't want to install. I tried JGR, the GUI for R, but I have found the following problems with this package: - I was not able to change the background color from a repulsive grey, - apparently, GNU readline is not implemented in that package, that is, there is no functionality similar to ctrl-r (which searches through the history for matching commands), something I use frequently, and - tab expansion is of limited use (e.g. doesn't browse files in the current directory when expanding quoted arguments e.g. in "read.table"). All in all, I'd be happy to continue using the plain R console, but syntax highlighting would be nice. Any advice would be extremely welcome. Kind regards, January > sessionInfo() R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25) Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 LC_MONETARY=C [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base -- ______________________________________________ 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.