A.J. Rossini writes: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Prof. Brian Ripley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think the `trick' is how text for parsing is sent to R, > and the answer > > is via the command line, using C redirection (and ptys under Unix). > > I've already suggested that approach a week ago. > > This is exactly it -- ESS works by sitting on top of R's I/O streams, > i.e. stdin and stdout, and parsing the input and output of known > commands. Why anyone would want to reinvent that wheel is beyond me. >
Perhaps because some people (myself included) find Emacs a really unpleasant editor to use. (Not implying this is the case for the person who started this thread, however.) I know it is hard for the Emacs zealots to comprehend. Having the ability to pipe selections from, say Nedit, directly to the R command line would be nice. It's absence is not enough to make me switch editors though. Rich Raubertas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
