On 9/22/22 23:15, Andrew Hart via R-devel wrote:
On 22/09/2022 16:42, Toby Hocking wrote:
Another option is to use https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
<https://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/> (version of emacs editor/ide
which can speak letters/words/lines -- has a blind maintainer) with
https://ess.r-project.org/ <https://ess.r-project.org/> (interface
for editing and running R code from within emacs)
Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. Of course, the optimal
solution would be to figure out what is going on in Rgui, but, as is
always the case, the blind user use case is a fairly niche one. I
appreciate all the suggestions for finding an immediate solution to my
problem.
I don't use any kind of IDE for working with R since I simply haven't
found one that is accessible or that i understand how to use. There is
a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE I installed a few years ago, but I
didn't understand the first thing about how it was to be used. So I've
just always worked with an editor open in one Window and R in another,
working interactively in R or bouncing over to the editor for more
complex things and sourcing code into R as necessary. However, I only
use the R console in Rgui. I went and had a look at Rterm, which I
have never used on Windows; I've only ever used it when ssh-ing into
Linux systems to use R. However, I've just found out that Rterm does a
number of fairly important things that probably mean I can just use it
instead of Rgui:
1. You can paste from the clipboard into the Rterm prompt;
2. It has a command history;
3. If you plot something, it opens a Window to draw the plot (I never
realised it could do this and had always assumed Rgui was needed for
this); and
4. It opens the HTML help if you ask for help on windows. I only ever
saw it display text help on Linux, but I was logged in remotely.
Text-based help is fine when ssh-ing into a machine, but HTML help is
much nicer to read and navigate.
I think I'll just switch over to Rterm for a while, but I can also
check out ess, which I wasn't aware of.
Thanks a lot,
Andrew.
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