Recommendations for a Windows text editor for R

Question

Any recommendations for a good Windows text editor for R?

I used Tinn-R and it worked pretty well, but I'm curious to see what else people use.

Answer 1

Vim is usually a favorite.

Answer 2

Emacs with ESS , which you can install through pre-built versions of Vincent Goulet . No additional configuration is required.

Emacs / ESS has very good things that it behaves the same no matter what OS you are on, which makes the transition much easier.

Answer 3

This list is still pretty relevant, I think, with one notable exception.

Check out R Studio .

Answer 4

I used Notepad ++ with NppToR and found it to be quite lightweight and efficient.

Answer 5

I use Eclipse and StatET .

Answer 6

Here's an archived list of IDE / script editors for R, compiled by Philippe Grosjean.

Original link

Answer 7

The Rstudio editor is the best I've found so far. It has a graphics window, a console, and an editor for all user sections on one screen, which I found incredibly useful. All windows with historical plots are neatly organized and it is very easy to make a comparison by turning it over. Historical commands are saved and easy to execute.

http://rstudio.org/

Answer 8

Zeus Editor

Answer 9

SciTE supports R.

Answer 10

Emacs is usually a favorite.

Answer 11

I use Tinn-R because it allows me to go through my code or just send them to the R window, which I find incredibly useful. The ability to select multiple lines and hit only send meshes well with my workflow habits. I would like to find a similar tool for Python (I'm sure someone will tell me what it is). However, the NPPtoR link looks very interesting, and I will have to try this.

Answer 12

Vim and emacs are the hardest to learn, but once you get used to one of them, you are likely to stay with it for many years.

Answer 13

I switched from Tinn-R to Eclipse using the StatET plugin.

Answer 14

I am using gvim. You do not know how popular users of other Windows are, but the following set of utilities is useful and can be used by any editor that can associate keys / functions with commands:

http://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/

batchfiles contains package files (.bat) and javascript files (.hta and .js), useful in combination with R and R packages on Microsoft Windows. There is no official installation, each of them consists of one file and is independent of the others, so just place them or all of them anywhere in your Windows path and you can access them in any session of the Windows console.

In particular, the AutoHotKey scripts in this package are good for sending selected text to the R console.

Answer 15

My vote is for vim, because I can use it in all systems that I can think of, both in graphical and in terminal modes.