I would like to thank you for your immediate reply. Actually I do not like vim and emacs.. I am trying to find an editor with a gui that will work fine in Linux.
One more question. If I am editing a file using my external text editor is it possible to execute directly one of the functions that are inside the file without executing the source("myfile.R") command first? Best Regards Alex ----- Original Message ---- From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> To: alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 2:13:48 PM Subject: Re: [R] Syntax Highlightning and Editor for Linux On 23/07/2010 8:08 AM, alaios wrote: > Hello to the community . > First post :) > I would like to ask you which text editor do you use in Linux and how did > you setup the syntax highlightning? > I don't use Linux, but I think the most popular editors there are vim and emacs, the latter with ESS. > one more question is it possible to debug any program in R by inserting > breakpoints? > > Yes, see the setBreakpoint() and trace() functions. Duncan Murdoch > I would like to thank you in advance for your help > Best Regards > Alex > ______________________________________________ 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.