Marc, That is exactly what I was looking for, although I am surprised that this variable does not appear to be configurable during installation from source as are some of the other environmental variables.
Mark On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > on 07/30/2008 12:54 PM Mark Kimpel wrote: > >> I'm running R on Linux and use emacs as my editor. When doing >> "edit(vignette(foo.vignette))" I would like to invoke emacs rather than >> the >> default vi. I am able to manually set this by editing $R_HOME/etc/Renviron >> but would like to avoid doing this with each install. I assume this can be >> accomplished with a flag to .configure or in .Rprofile but I can't find >> the >> syntax in R-admin. Editor is not listed as an environment variable in >> appendix B of that manual. >> >> So, help is appreciated as I've probably missed something. >> Mark >> >> > Mark, > > See ?options for 'editor'. This is also referenced in ?edit, where the > default value for the 'editor' argument is getOption("editor"). > > Thus, in your .Rprofile, put: > > options(editor="emacs") > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > -- Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) ****************************************************************** [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.