created by

Johannes Ranke

script type

ftplugin

description

The plugin is not maintained any more. Please use the excellent vimscript #2628. It even lets you use the "r" key to send a visual selection to R (let vimrplugin_map_r=1) if you got used to this using my plugin. The following is only kept for archiving purposes. Send R code from a VIM buffer to R on Unix type systems using funnel.pl from vimscript #221. Contains README.R_with_vim ftplugin/r.vim ftplugin/rnoweb.vim ftplugin/funnel.pl syntax/rhelp.vim syntax/rnoweb.vim Makefile.rnoweb Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa is now a coauthor of this plugin (starting from version 0.03). He helped me fixing a bug and started the syntax file for mixed highlighting of Latex and R syntax (syntax/rnoweb.vim). I set up a small project page for this plugin, featuring a screenshot: http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke/?page=vim_R_linux You can browse the subversion repository where these files are at home: http://kriemhild.uft.uni-bremen.de/viewcvs/?root=vim Alternatives for Mac Os X include vimscript #1741 and vimscript #2104. Under Windows, I am now using a quite simple solution, consisting of the installation of the rcom package for R which requires statconnDCOM from http://rcom.univie.ac.at and ActiveState Perl in the PATH (watch out if you use R tools, because GNU perl does not have the DCOM interface, so ActiveState perl needs to be first in the path). My ftplugin/r.vim under Windows: perl << EOF sub rsourceclipboard {     use Win32::OLE;     my $R = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('RCOMServerLib.StatConnector')           || Win32::OLE->new('RCOMServerLib.StatConnector');     $R->Evaluate("source('clipboard', echo=TRUE)");     $R->Close; } EOF vnoremap <buffer> r "*y:perl rsourceclipboard<CR> This means that the visual selection is pasted to the clipboard and the clipboard content is sourced by R when the key "r" is pressed in visual mode.

install details

For working with vim and R it is convenient to open a fresh xterm on a fresh virtual desktop, covering the left half of the screen, and start vim, check if the filetype is set correctly (:set ft), set it if necessary (e.g. with :set ft=r) and press <F2>. This will open a second xterm listening to an R interpreter.  You can then send visually highlighted code from vim to R with the vmap "r". Caution: If there are adjacent tabs in the source code (can be made visible with :set list, then they show up as ^I^I), then your R console will list the contents of your working directory in the middle of interpreting your code and most likely get confused. I don't recommend using tabs anyway (use the vim option expandtab, as set in r.vim). A workaround for existing code is to execute it with the R command source(). ----- As an alternative to this plugin on www.vim.org you can also install my Debian package if you are using the Debian distribution: $ su $ echo "deb http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke/debs ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list $ apt-get update $ apt-get install vim-r-plugin Note that you have to activate addons like this plugin since vim version 7.1-022+1, July 2007. For system-wide activation, use     $ vim-addons -w install r-plugin (details in README.Debian). You can then ignore the rest of this file. ----- Making this plugin work requires the installation of the perl script, ftplugin/funnel.pl. It just has to be in your $PATH and executable, so if you are the only one working with the plugin on your machine, e.g. mv ftplugin/funnel.pl ~/bin chmod +x ~/bin/funnel.pl (be sure ~/bin is in your $PATH variable) or if you have superuser privileges you can put funnel.pl it into /usr/local/bin. funnel.pl requires two perl libraries: IO::Pty and Term::ReadLine If you add the lines au BufNewFile,BufRead *.R     setf r au BufNewFile,BufRead *.R     set syntax=r to your ~.vim/filetype.vim file (or create one with only these lines) then the vimscript r.vim will be activated upon opening any file with a filename matching *.R. The whole set of commands available at this point is elucidated in ftplugin/r.vim. I am also including my syntax files for R help files and R noweb files (Sweave files) as well as a Makefile for processing R noweb files from within vim with :make. The syntax files are part of vim starting from version 7. I have one report of the funnel.pl not working on Mac OS X with the default perl on this OS. If anybody gets this to work, please drop me a line.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
R_with_vim_0.5-80.tar.gz	0.5-80	2007-11-21	6.0	Johannes Ranke	- Cleaned up ftplugin/*.vim files - Added shiftwidth=2 and expandtab to ftplugin/rnoweb.vim - Added documentation on using vim-addon-manager to activate the plugin under Debian based distributions
R_with_vim_0.5-62.tar.gz	0.5-62	2006-05-24	6.0	Johannes Ranke	- Update of R help file syntax for new items in R 2.3.0 - Fixed tabbing in ftplugin/r.vim to suit emacs edited scripts. - Added a note about the problem with adjacent tabs being pasted to the R console (see README.R_with_vim) - Small fixes
R_with_vim_0.5-54.tar.gz	0.5-54	2006-04-18	6.0	Johannes Ranke	- Up-to-date version of the R help and R noweb syntax files. Both of them are now part of vim 7. - Added ftplugin/rnoweb.vim and Makefile.rnoweb for R noweb files.
R_with_vim_0.5-38.tar.gz	0.5-38	2006-02-28	6.0	Johannes Ranke	- switched to funnel.pl from VIlisp 2.3 - carefully reviewed and extended the R help file syntax highlighting
R_with_vim_0.03-36.tar.gz	0.03-33	2005-08-09	6.0	Johannes Ranke	Fixed the problem with the xterm not closing. Installation is also easier now because the bash script R-managed is not needed any more.
R_with_vim_0.03-29.tar.gz	0.03-29	2005-08-05	6.0	Johannes Ranke	Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa inspired me to improve the plugin. Also added mixed syntax highlighting for Sweave files according to the tip of his.
R_with_vim_0.01-8.tar.gz	0.01-8	2004-07-30	6.0	Johannes Ranke	Small improvement of README file
R_with_vim_0.01-6.tar.gz	0.01	2004-07-28	6.0	Johannes Ranke	Initial upload

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