Rstudio vs. StatET

Rstudio wins in easy installation, smaller size, and intuitive user interface. StatET wins in graphical debugger and an outline view. Right now, StatET is a better choice for Sweave/Knitr/LaTeX authoring platform than Rstudio.

Integrating Eclipse and Rcpp

Interesting ideas.

Debugging tutorial for StatET

Here is a brief introduction to the visual debugger of StatET, which I find very useful.

The new StatET looks promising

StatET plugin for Eclipse just reached its 2.0 release, which is a big jump from the previous one. The new version seems to have quite a few new features that worth being considered seriously.

I like Emace+ESS, Rstudio, and Eclipse+StatET. Choice is a good thing!

Using Emacs key binding in Eclipse

This package seems to provide enhanced functionalities for that.

Autostart R console

An recent patch to the StatET fixed the autostart function. Now the R console starts automatically when I launch Eclipse, which is exactly what I want.

Eclipse 3.6 no longer has the "run last launched tools" shortcut key, but this autostart thing is probably even better.

Spell checking with Eclipse

I like Eclipse as a LaTeX and Sweave platform. This web page explains how to do spell checking with Eclipse, which got me confused for quite a while.

StatET does not work with OpenJDK

After several failed attempts to get StatET to work on my older Ubuntu box, I realized that it does not work with OpenJDK. After replacing the default OpenJDK with the official Sun JDK, everything works fine.

Spell checking in Eclipse

This post explains how to improve spell checking in Eclipse.

Word wrap in eclipse

For those who struggle to get reasonable word wrapping function in Eclipse, this is a good news.

Here is the original source.

Several screenshots

After some tweaking, I finally got Eclipse+StatET working the way I want. The first figure shows a running R session; the second figure shows the maximized running R session. The following shortcut keys are very helpful:

1. Ctrl + A: select what you to run;
2. Ctrl + R + R: run the selected program then go to the R console;
3. Ctrl + M: maximize the R console;
4. Ctril + T + 0: run Sweave of pgfSweave.

I like the way Eclipse organize the project and windows.