R development environment (was: Re: [ubuntu-women] introduction

[Clytie Siddall]

On 08/03/2006, at 7:51 AM, Sébastien Nicouleaud wrote:

> Le mardi 07 mars 2006 à 17:35 +1100, Claudine Chionh a écrit :
>> I work in public
>> health research, using a proprietary statistical package for data
>> management and basic statistical analysis. Back when I had spare  
>> time,
>> I taught myself HTML, LaTeX and some PHP. I'm also interested in
>> technical writing and Linux advocacy. I'm not currently in a position
>> where I can convince my colleagues to use free software. The tools  
>> are
>> all there (we could do analysis in R and write reports in LaTeX or
>> OpenOffice) but attitudes need changing.
>
> I totally agree with this.
> My cousin needed some nice R development environment, but we were  
> unable
> to find any that match his needs. I also looked at existing IDEs, to
> write some plugin (or contribute to existing one), but none of them
> satisfied me.
> So I recently started my own project. I wrote some dirty basic  
> features
> proof-of-concept code, and I'm currently working on the IDE's
> architecture.

So much R development is still done in bits and pieces: a good  
environment would save time and create more holistic workflows, and  
more consistent results.

Does your project have an address yet, Sebastien (SF, Freshmeat,  
Gforge etc.) ?

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN