I use Linux only and have been teaching students with Emacs & ESS. Lately, we've had some troubles with that combination that are not solved, and it has caused me to look about for alternatives.
One of my students has a Macintosh and he showed me that the R that he installed came with an editor that does what we need. The command-shift sends lines over. So I started to wonder: why can't we compile that Editor in Linux? If a Mac is really BSD Unix with a layer of libraries, it should be possible. There are GNUstep libraries to duplicate much of the NextStep framework, but I have not studied enough on current Mac systems to know how close we might be to building the Mac R editor along with R itself. I've been Googling and searching in this lists archive and don't find much discussion on this. If anybody has ideas about whether this is possible, please advise. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
