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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.

Categories: Open Source, R
  1. Eric Powell
    September 18, 2010 at 4:04 pm | #1

    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…

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