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I am working with NppToR as an extension allowing the use of notepad++ to be an IDE for R.

But there are a few features I didn't yet see implemented (I compiled the list from another IDE solution, which is not open source) :

Object Browser - Allow users to see all the data and function objects that are available, including those in loaded and installed R packages. Context menus provide the capability to quickly edit and plot data or load a package.

Full-featured Visual Debugger - Debug R scripts, with step-in, step-over, and step-out capability, allowing users to inspect and modify R objects as they are debugging

A Visual Solution Explorer - Organize, view, add, remove, rearrange, and deploy R scripts. Users can create their own Project Templates for automatic creation of a set of customized scripts for a new R project. Dockable, Floating, and Tabbed Tool Windows. for Creating personally customized workspaces.

Enhanced Help - Complete search capabilities and hover-over tooltips for functions and data objects.

R Code Snippets - Automatically generate fill-in-the-blank sections of R code for a variety of analyses. Tooltip help gives guidance in filling out the snippet.

Any Idea on how to get some of these already in notepad++ through some other noteps++ extensions or R packages ?

Thanks, Tal

Tal Galili
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    This is essentially a duplicate of the previous questions about recommendations for an IDE to be used with R. Unfortunately the search feature here is a tad weak. – Dirk Eddelbuettel Feb 17 '10 at 18:04
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    Here's the earlier post on IDE for R: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439059/best-ide-texteditor-for-r – JD Long Feb 17 '10 at 19:55

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Notepad++ isn't really configured to offer these types of features. You'll do better to explore StatET + Eclipse or ESS (Emacs speaks statistics).

Links:

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  • Of course. Run, don't walk, to Vincent Goulet's page with a single install of R + ESS + Auctex ready to run on Windoze (and one for OS X) -- see http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/. – Dirk Eddelbuettel Feb 17 '10 at 17:51
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    If you are used to Windows you may find StatET easier to learn. I'm in windows most of the time and slip between notepad++, Sublime, and Eclipse+StatET quite a lot. My experimentation with ESS ended 15 seconds after I muttered to myself, "how the hell do I print from this thing?" ;) – JD Long Feb 17 '10 at 19:53
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    @JD: How about mark a region with the mouse and select File->Print Region? And File->Print Buffer prints the whole buffer. – Dirk Eddelbuettel Feb 18 '10 at 04:14
  • @dirk: um.. hey look! is that a bunny over there?!?!? (anything to distract from my idiocy) – JD Long Feb 18 '10 at 15:55
  • After seeing the reply of the developer, I suspect your answer is the right one... http://sourceforge.net/projects/npptor/forums/forum/880832/topic/3557724 (e.g: notepad++ good for starting out, not for long term mature statistical programming) – Tal Galili Feb 18 '10 at 22:01
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In Linux, there is a great package RKWard, which takes care of all the issues that Notepad++ is missing.

Unfotunately, I was unable to make it run under Windows (it says it is missing a dll)

So I am using Notepad++ as my development environment and RStudio for runtime environment

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Actually, with NppToR, it becomes a real blast! No need for RStudio - although if you have a big screen, RStudio is still a great runtime environment

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