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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

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:
> Hi,
> 
> I originally wrote the R plugin, so I'm responsible for its awful
> state. I had little free time in the last years...
> The problem is this:
> The R plugin should run when TeXmacs finds R, but should install
> correctly when TeXmacs is installed whether or not R is installed at
> that time. On the other hand, R really doesn't like to run a package
> prepared for a different version of R....
> One possibility is that the package is compiled in the user's TeXmacs
> directory when R is first found. Kida ugly. Or, R could install the
> package into the user's R library, a bit nicer, but I'm not sure all
> uses will have a writable user specific library directory ready.
> 
> Another option would be that the user runs something like
> install.packages("TeXmacs") which will grab the latest TeXmacs library
> from CRAN, or
> install.packages("path/to/TeXmacs.tar.gz", repos=NULL)
> 
> I wanted to create a little web page that explains how to use the
> plugin. Maybe in a week or two.
> 
> The latest, still unsubmitted, version of the TeXmacs script can be used 
> with
> source("http://www.eva.mpg.de/~lachmann/TeXmacs.R";)
> 
> tab-completion should work with the R plugin.
> After establishing password-less log in to a remote machine,
> you can do the following to run R on it, inside TeXmacs. (I use this
> ALL THE TIME!)
> 
> system("ssh -t remote.machine /path/to/R")
> 
> After logging in, do
> source("http://www.eva.mpg.de/~lachmann/TeXmacs.R";)
> 
> and if you want to use graphics,
> start.view()
> 
> 
> To edit a function/object inside TeXmacs with syntax highlighting, use 
> t.edit:
> t.edit( myfunction )
> 
> There are two modes of viewing R help files in TeXmacs. The first, the
> default, just displays them in-buffer (this is what I use usually).
> The second opens a new buffer for each help page, from the html. To
> get the second behavior, do
> t.start.help()
> 
> 
> Michael