>>>>> "ChuckB" == Charles C Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:07:05 -0800 writes:
ChuckB> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Andrew Yee wrote:
>> Hi, I've been using R in Windows but am now starting to
>> use it more often in the UNIX environment. In Windows,
>> I'm used to the text provided by the user appearing in
>> red, and the output from R appearing in blue. Is there a
>> way to achieve this in UNIX?
ChuckB> What you describe is called 'syntax highlighting'.
ChuckB> There are some editors that let you run R and
ChuckB> provide syntax highlighting and other nifty
ChuckB> features.
ChuckB> My first choice is emacs which has a package (aka
ChuckB> mode) called ESS. There are links on the r-project
ChuckB> home page (which for sime reason is timing out for
ChuckB> me right now) to editors including emacs-ESS. Or go
ChuckB> to the emacs-ESS home page
ChuckB> http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/
Thanks a lot, Chuck!
BTW, the above is equivalent to
http://ESS.r-project.org/
-------------------------
which is slightly preferred.
BTW: I've been looking for a (or a few) volunteer to rewriting
that web page using things like CSS and/or PHP but not using a
CMS with data base back end).
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
ChuckB> or try
ChuckB> RSiteSearch("editor")
ChuckB> where you will find links to 'what is the best
ChuckB> editor' discussions.
ChuckB> HTH,
ChuckB> Chuck
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