Upgrading from R-2.12 to R-2.13 was fairly painless, except for one minor hiccup in trying to get the 64-bit version running on my installation of Eclipse + StatET under Windows 7. The setup instructions are almost entirely the same as I have outlined ... [Read more...]

Get access to a simple object browser in R so that you can see what variables, data frames, model objects and other junk you have in memory currently. If you don't want to install a full-fledged integrated development environment, this option may be fo... [Read more...]

A while back I outlined the setup process for running R under the Eclipse integrated development environment with the help of WalWare.de’s StatET plugin for Eclipse, in Windows 7. This post is an update on that procedure for the newer versions of... [Read more...]

Using Sweave to produce pretty-looking documentation for R is awfully handy. It takes a little tweaking to get set up in Eclipse and StatET though. I followed the information in Jeromy Anglim’s webpage to originally get Sweave set up. The followi... [Read more...]

Using StatET’s code generation templates is handy, but the standard Eclipse variable for ${user} just inserts the currently logged-in user’s account name. If you want a different name to appear when ${user} is called, one method is to alter... [Read more...]

How to use Eclipse and StatET to create a handy-dandy development environment for R. Using the Eclipse environment provides a nice colored-syntax script editor, an R console, and an object browser to let you peruse the variables you've put into memory.... [Read more...]