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Re: [R] Suggestions for statistical computing course

John Kane

2007-04-20

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--- Ravi Varadhan <rvaradhan@(protected):

> Hi Giovanni,
>


I have been quite satisfied with Tinn-R
(http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/ ) in a Windows
environment.

It is small fast and I can run both it and R from a
USB if I need a portable setup.


> 2. I do most of my work in R using Emacs and ESS.
> That means that I
>   keep a file in an emacs window and I submit it to
> R one line at a
>   time or one region at a time, making corrections
> and iterating as
>   needed. When I am done, I just save the file with
> the last,
>   working, correct (hopefully!) version of my code.
> Is there a way of
>   doing something like that, or in the same spirit,
> without using
>   Emacs/ESS? What approach would you use to polish
> and save your code
>   in this case? For my course I will be working in
> a Windows
>   environment.
>  
>   While I am looking for simple and effective
> solutions that do not
>   require installing emacs in our computer lab, the
> answer "you
>   should teach your students emacs/ess on top of R"
> is perfecly
>   acceptable.
>  
>
> Thank you for your consideration, and thank you in
> advance for the
> useful replies.
>
> Have a good day,
> Giovanni
>
> --
>
> Giovanni Petris <GPetris@(protected)>
> Department of Mathematical Sciences
> University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701
> Ph: (479) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax)
> http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/
>
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