Paul,
Hopefully someone with knowledge of Emacs & ESS & R on Linux will help
you first!
I would guess recompiling just the Editor is virtually impossible.
R.app, in which the Editor is embedded, is Cocoa based. It would be a
major undertaking to port R.app or at least major parts of it (and
subsequent maintenance). E.g. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/resources/BookClarifications.html
talks about some of the issues.
And there is a 3rd edition of the Hillegass book.
If the Emacs/ESS issues absolutely cannot be resolved, maybe a more
feasible/easier route would be to use tcl/tk, like John Fox has done
in Rcmdr. Maybe start-off with something like MetPad? Not simple
either, but doable.
Rob
On May 15, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
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
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Professor, Political Science
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University of Kansas
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