Dear January, Have you looked at Emacs + ESS? http://ess.r-project.org/
It highlights in the text editor and the actual R process besides coming with a rich set of features and a mailing list filled with helpful Emacs & R users. I've tried several different interfaces and ended up being happiest by far with Emacs + ESS. I also seem to recall Kate or Kedit at least highlighted .R files, but I am not in a position to check right now. Happy hunting, Josh On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:32 AM, January Weiner <january.wei...@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am a happy user of R console, but I would like to see syntax > coloring. I use R 2.12 in Ubuntu Linux. > > I have found the packages "xterm256" and "highlight", but I was not > able to figure out how to use it to highlight the syntax in console > output. > > Also, I tried several GUI interfaces, but I was not able to find > something that suits me better than the default R console. R cmdr is > definitely not for me, as I don't want to fundamentally change the way > I am managing my data in R. Rkwrd seems to be nice (from screenshots), > but its installation requires all the base KDE libraries, which I > don't want to install. > > I tried JGR, the GUI for R, but I have found the following problems > with this package: > > - I was not able to change the background color from a repulsive grey, > - apparently, GNU readline is not implemented in that package, that > is, there is no functionality similar to ctrl-r (which searches > through the history for matching commands), something I use > frequently, and > - tab expansion is of limited use (e.g. doesn't browse files in the > current directory when expanding quoted arguments e.g. in > "read.table"). > > All in all, I'd be happy to continue using the plain R console, but > syntax highlighting would be nice. Any advice would be extremely > welcome. > > Kind regards, > > January > > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25) > Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C > LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 LC_MONETARY=C > [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C > LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > -- > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
