> 2. I do most of my work in R using Emacs and ESS. That means that I > keep a file in an emacs window and I submit it to R one line at a > time or one region at a time, making corrections and iterating as > needed. When I am done, I just save the file with the last, > working, correct (hopefully!) version of my code. Is there a way of > doing something like that, or in the same spirit, without using > Emacs/ESS? What approach would you use to polish and save your code > in this case? For my course I will be working in a Windows > environment. > > While I am looking for simple and effective solutions that do not > require installing emacs in our computer lab, the answer "you > should teach your students emacs/ess on top of R" is perfecly > acceptable. >
TINN-R (http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/) could be an alternative for Emacs. But hen you would still have to install it on each computer. And there still is the build-in code editor. Cheers, Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Reseach Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.inbo.be Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.