Emacs with ESS is very simple to operate when you use the menu. See Paul Johnson's document
[Emacs has no learning curve: Emacs and ESS] http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Rcourse/emacs-ess/emacs-ess.pdf Rich On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/01/2016 2:22 PM, Franklin Bretschneider wrote: >> >> Dear Christofer Bogaso, >> >> >> Re: >> >> >> > Could you please suggest a good R editor for Mac OS X (10.7.5) >> >> >> >> Indeed, as Roy Mendelssohn wrote, the editor built into "R.app", the GUI >> program which is part of the standard R for OS X, has a beautiful editor, >> complete with syntax colouring and bracket balancing. And one can run only >> one or a few lines from a script at wish. >> I couldn't wish myself more. > > > R.app looks nicer than RStudio (no tiling), but it is missing a lot of > functionality. > > - the debugger > - the integration with other tools provided by RStudio, like Shiny, > RMarkdown, htmlwidgets, package building tools, etc. > - the integration with source code management. > - session management (i.e. it's easier to shut down and restart R, which > you frequently need to do when developing and testing packages) > - syntax checking hints in the editor (not just for R, for some other > languages too). > > I think Emacs + ESS matches (exceeds if you count non-R stuff) RStudio in > functionality, but it is much harder to learn. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
