From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Feb 25 16:52:56 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed Feb 25 16:54:11 2004
Subject: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI
In-Reply-To: <A8C5C126-67A5-11D8-BFB7-000A957CEFBA@math.uni-augsburg.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402251549110.9060-100000@gannet.stats>

Simon,

That's very interesting, but as you know Java installation can be quite 
problematic.  (It looks like the current Sun JVM 1.4.2_03 has several 
issues, including not working with the R search engine, and a warning on 
mozilla.org about its Windows plugin.)

We bundled a version of Tcl/Tk with the R Windows binary to try to avoid 
compatibility issues, and even then I would prefer a native Windows 
solution for this one.

Brian


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Chris Jackson wrote:
> 
> > There's been requests in the past for a text editor built into the 
> > Rgui for Windows, from which code can be submitted to the R console.  
> > Something along the lines of the script editor in S-Plus.  Currently 
> > Rgui can only display a file read-only in a pager.  As far as I can 
> > tell there's been little motivation to implement an editor, as most 
> > developers use (the excellent) ESS, or don't use Windows.  I also use 
> > ESS, but the students here are taught S-Plus and learn to use the .ssc 
> > editor.
> 
> It may be of interest that our group is working on a GUI for R written 
> in Java, i.e. it should be platform independent (at least we plan to 
> support Windows, Mac and Linux). Among many other features this GUI 
> includes such an script editor as described above. Data set editor 
> mentioned in other posts in this thread is included, too. We are of 
> course open for any further ideas or wishes. The official release is 
> planned for the useR! 2004 conference in Vienna.
> 
> Simon
> 
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[Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI
Prof Brian Ripley