From rdiaz at cnio.es  Mon Feb 26 16:19:54 2007
From: rdiaz at cnio.es (Ramon Diaz-Uriarte)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:19:54 +0100
Subject: [Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?
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On Monday 26 February 2007 16:51, elw at stderr.org wrote:
> > First, great thanks to all for all the answers. I confess i was a bit
> > scared about (re)learning a possible tomorrow obsolete tool.
> >
> > I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R
> > package developers use emacs ?
>
> Plenty of folks don't use an IDE at all.  Copy/pasting working bits of
> code from your .Rhistory into a working file is a very useful tactic...

You kidding, right? (I mean, maybe lots of people do that, but maybe that 
ain't such a good idea :-).

R.

P.S. Whether or not emacs + ess + ecb + a whole bunch of other things is or 
not a "real IDE" (whatever that means) I think is tangential to the original 
question. The issue, if I understand, are editing tools that will make the 
editing et al. simpler. So 

> > I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R
> > package developers use emacs ?
>

No. Not 100%. But you said you'll be using Windows but want to move to 
GNU/Linux. Then, you might want to use the very same tool over a range of 
OSs, or regardless of whether you are in front of your workstation, or 
accessing it over a slow modem connection, etc. In such cases, Emacs is an 
excellent choice. Or one of the very, very few. In addition, I think you are 
seeing an example of  "once you try emacs, you often realize that other 
choices do not really offer you all that much, but you loose a lot". 

HTH,

R.


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[Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?
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