You could always use notepad, but there are better solutions. There are many text editors which will send the commands to R for you and return the results and also offer syntax highlighting. I like Tinn-R. Xemacs is probably the best, but its hard to learn (IMHO) and I have not taken the time to do so. There is also a host of GUIs that people are developing for R. Take a look at: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/
I suggest R commander. library(Rcmdr) You will need to download it from CRAN. HTH, Roger On 3/8/06, Thomas L Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From Tom: > > The subject is debugging a program written in the R language,under > Windows. (Sorry, but I do not know either the Apple OS or *nix.) A > computer program will usually not work on the first try, if only > because of the risk of typos. Instead, it must be debugged. Roughly, > here is the sequence: > > (1) One codes a program using the R language, and stores it on the > hard drive, using some particular editor. > > (2) The program is fed to the R software, together with test data, > etc. > > (3) A test computation is run and bugs are spotted. > > (4) The program is corrected, using an editor, and the revised version > is stored on the hard drive. > > (5) The sequence goes back to step (2) and is repeated until the > program hopefully works. > > Unfortunately, the documentation doesn't really explain how to do all > of this, or if it is explained in the documentation, I can't find it. > > Reading between the lines a bit, I infer that you are supposed to be > able to use something called a History file, then sort of work > backward in the code and make corrections. I never got it to work for > me. Also, it is unclear how you would handle code entered six weeks or > six months ago. > > That is the bad news; the good news is that some kind soul told me > about a key trick; prepare the program in Windows text format (.txt) > and copy it and paste it into the console. The program will now run > from a user-defined "wrapper" or "driver" function. > > I am aware that there is an editor called Emacs which you can use if > you are a member of the *nix community, which I am not. > > Question: How are you -supposed- to debug a program which you have > written in the R language? > > Tom > Thomas L. Jones, Ph.D., Computer Science > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
