> 2. I do most of my work in R using Emacs and ESS. That means that I
>   keep a file in an emacs window and I submit it to R one line at a
>   time or one region at a time, making corrections and iterating as
>   needed. When I am done, I just save the file with the last,
>   working, correct (hopefully!) version of my code. Is there a way of
>   doing something like that, or in the same spirit, without using
>   Emacs/ESS? What approach would you use to polish and save your code
>   in this case? For my course I will be working in a Windows
>   environment.
>  
>   While I am looking for simple and effective solutions that do not
>   require installing emacs in our computer lab, the answer "you
>   should teach your students emacs/ess on top of R" is perfecly
>   acceptable.
>  

TINN-R (http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/) could be an alternative for
Emacs. But hen you would still have to install it on each computer.

And there still is the build-in code editor.

Cheers,

Thierry

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ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Reseach Institute for Nature
and Forest
Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics,
methodology and quality assurance
Gaverstraat 4
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Belgium
tel. + 32 54/436 185
Thierry.Onkelinx@(protected)
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