- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] R plugin on Mac OS X
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 22:27:03 +0200
Hi Michael,
If you have an update for the R plug-in, then please let me know.
Under MacOS, I can evaluate 1+1, but I cannot do things which are
more interesting with the current plug-in.
Best wishes, --Joris
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:27:03PM +0200, Michael Lachmann wrote:
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Hi,
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I originally wrote the R plugin, so I'm responsible for its awful
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state. I had little free time in the last years...
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The problem is this:
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The R plugin should run when TeXmacs finds R, but should install
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correctly when TeXmacs is installed whether or not R is installed at
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that time. On the other hand, R really doesn't like to run a package
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prepared for a different version of R....
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One possibility is that the package is compiled in the user's TeXmacs
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directory when R is first found. Kida ugly. Or, R could install the
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package into the user's R library, a bit nicer, but I'm not sure all
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uses will have a writable user specific library directory ready.
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Another option would be that the user runs something like
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install.packages("TeXmacs") which will grab the latest TeXmacs library
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from CRAN, or
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install.packages("path/to/TeXmacs.tar.gz", repos=NULL)
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I wanted to create a little web page that explains how to use the
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plugin. Maybe in a week or two.
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The latest, still unsubmitted, version of the TeXmacs script can be used
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with
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source("http://www.eva.mpg.de/~lachmann/TeXmacs.R")
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tab-completion should work with the R plugin.
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After establishing password-less log in to a remote machine,
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you can do the following to run R on it, inside TeXmacs. (I use this
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ALL THE TIME!)
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system("ssh -t remote.machine /path/to/R")
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After logging in, do
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source("http://www.eva.mpg.de/~lachmann/TeXmacs.R")
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and if you want to use graphics,
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start.view()
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To edit a function/object inside TeXmacs with syntax highlighting, use
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t.edit:
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t.edit( myfunction )
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There are two modes of viewing R help files in TeXmacs. The first, the
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default, just displays them in-buffer (this is what I use usually).
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The second opens a new buffer for each help page, from the html. To
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get the second behavior, do
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t.start.help()
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Michael
- Re: [TeXmacs] R plugin on Mac OS X, Joris van der Hoeven, 07/01/2012
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