EditPad Pro is commercial, which makes it a nonchoice for recommending it to my students. I recently switched from tinn-R to Notepad++ with NppToR and am quite happy with it. tinn-R is quite good, but possibly the project is getting too ambitous now. It needs quite some fiddling with Rprofile.site to make it work.
Thompson, David (MNR) wrote: > Werner, > > Another alternative is EditPad Pro <http://www.editpadpro.com/>. > > DaveT. > ************************************* > Silviculture Data Analyst > Ontario Forest Research Institute > Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources > david.john.thomp...@ontario.ca > http://ontario.ca/ofri > ************************************* >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andrew Redd [mailto:ar...@stat.tamu.edu] >> Sent: March 2, 2009 10:29 PM >> To: Michael Bibo >> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: Re: [R] portable R editor >> >> Thanks for the plug on NppToR. Yes it is portable, but a few of the >> features don't work. I have it on my plan to have a launcher for the >> portable apps menu. Also the website for NppToR is now >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/npptor/ >> >> On my personal website I also keep, semi-up-to-date a >> portableapps.comcompatible launcher for R. >> http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~aredd/site/?q=node/2. There is a full >> installation and just the launcher. If you download just the >> launcher you >> can install the latest version of R into the bin directory and It will >> work. I think it is version 2.8.0 in the installer. I'll >> update that soon. >> >> Andrew Redd >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Michael Bibo >> <michael_b...@health.qld.gov.au >>> wrote: >>> Werner Wernersen <pensterfuzzer <at> yahoo.de> writes: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have been dreaming about a complete R environment on my >> USB stick for a >>> long time. Now I finally want to >>>> realize it but what I am missing is a good, portable >> editor for R which >>> has >>> tabs and syntax highlighting, can >>>> execute code, has bookmarks and a little project file >> management facility >>> pretty much like Tinn-R has >>>> those. I like Tinn-R but it seems like there is only a >> very old version >>> of >>> Tinn-R which works standalone. >>> >>> Hi Werner, >>> >>> Three options: >>> >>> I have previously posted about using Emacs + ESS on a USB stick: >>> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/107419.html >>> >>> Tinn-R will work portably. I have simply copied the installed Tinn-R >>> folder >>> from one machine to another on which I do not have >> administrator privileges >>> and therefore cannot do a normal install. >>> >>> Another option is Notepad++ (http://notepad- >>> plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). There is even a portable version >>> available >>> fom www.portableapps.com. Andrew Redd has created (and is >> continuing to >>> develop) NppToR >> (http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~aredd/site/?q=node/37<http://www.sta >> t.tamu.edu/%7Earedd/site/?q=node/37>) >>> which >>> provides syntax highlighting, code folding and code passing to R. >>> Notepad++ >>> has a tabbed interface as well as add-ons including a file explorer, >>> windows >>> manager and multiclipboard manager. It also allows for the >> recording of >>> macros, and the instructions found at this blog >>> >> (http://aztecpassage.blogspot.com/2007/11/load-new-file-from-te >> mplate-in- >> notepad.html<http://aztecpassage.blogspot.com/2007/11/load-new- >> file-from-template-in-%0Anotepad.html>) >>> use Notepad++'s built-in capacity to run external tools to >>> create new files from templates. >>> >>> >>> Michael Bibo >>> Queensland Health >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.6/1980 - Release Date: 03/02/09 > 23:02:00 > -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 ______________________________________________ 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.
