In addition to Prof. Ripley's comments, which I wholeheartedly support, I might point you to some additional tools, that enhance the use of Emacs for coding.
I am running Emacs (alpha version 23 from cvs source) under Linux and while I do not do C, C++ or FORTRAN coding, these tools have dramatically improved my coding productivity when using R and Sweave (R + LaTeX) along with ESS and other standard Emacs tools such as Auctex/Preview-Latex. 1. ECB - Emacs Code Browser http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ 2. psvn - A Subversion interface for emacs http://www.xsteve.at/prg/vc_svn/ Both of the above, especially if you integrate version control using Subversion, greatly enhance the functionality of Emacs as an IDE. HTH, Marc Schwartz On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:17 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You seem to mention both Linux and Windows. > > Emacs and XEmacs are both stable on both platforms, and I think most R > developers use an emacs or vi variant for all their programming. I would > not call emacs an IDE, but the main thing I find useful is to have a > language-aware editor (syntax highlighting, indentation ...). > > If you write a package you will also need an Rd editor, and emacs/ESS is > probably the best supported of those. > > Later versions of precompiled emacs for Windows have existed, but I am > running 21.3.1 (2002) on Windows and 21.4.1 on Linux: emacs itself is very > stable. If you prefer a more graphical environment, XEmacs is a good > alternative and despite its name has an active Windows version. > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, mel wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I have to develop a (hopefully) small package for R in C++. > > I didn't code in C++ for some years, and i'm now searching > > for an adequate IDE for this task. > > > > Some of my criterions : not proprietary, not too heavy, > > open to linux, not java gasworks, still maintained, etc > > > > After looking on several places > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C%2B%2B_compilers_and_integrated_development_environments > > http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppide.html > > + R docs > > I was thinking on code::blocks, and emacs (and perhaps vim) > > > > Emacs seems used by some R developers as an R editor. > > So i did think on emacs because it could perhaps be interesting > > to have the same editor for R code and C++ code. > > > > However, when looking at the last emacs windows version, > > it seems to date from january 2004 ... (dead end ?) > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ > > > > I will be grateful for all advices on this tool topic. > > Better choosing emacs ? or code::blocks ? > > or another idea ? > > Does somebody have an idea about the most used IDEs for > > R C++ package writing ? > > > > Thanks > > Vincent ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
