JGR and Tinn-R…don’t really like either
So I used both JGR and Tinn-R for approximately 2 months (1 month JGR, 1 month Tinn-R). JGR seemed perfect at first UNTIL it started crashing on me just at the WRONG time. Luckily I save my work often, so I didn’t lose any serious amount of work, but had I not…I would have died. Needless to say that although I found it easy to use and valuable, the constant fear that I’d lose my work was too much on the anxiety front.
Tinn-R….forgetaboutit! Waaaayyyyy too much going on. It’s a great text editor if you have the time to sit there an learn every nook and cranny…I just didn’t have the time. I imagine it’s excellent once you figure out what all the buttons are for.
Oh, and I’ve used Eclipse as well…and it’s a nightmare to download/update, etc.
So I’m back to the regular ol’ text editor that R provides. It got me through grad school, so it’ll have to do until I come across another text editor worth trying.
Please feel free to let me know if there’s another one out there to try.
This is probably a long shot, but I think emacs is the best text editor and they have a package called ESS (emacs speaks statistics) that I would recommend. That is, if you’re willing to bear the emacs learning curve…