handout - Daina Chiba

3 R
3.1 Text Editor
Why you want to use a text editor?
• Syntax highlighting
• Parenthesis matching
• Let you send part or all of the R codes to R
A powerful text editor significantly reduces careless mistakes and save your day.
3.1.1 How to Install Tinn-R (PC users)
If you want to install Tinn-R to a Rice computer (for which you don’t have an Administrator
privilege):
1. Go to the Tinn-R website and download the last runnable version without installer
(1.15.1.7) (.zip, 2.9 Mb) at the bottom of the page. (Alternatively, you can click here
to download it.)
2. Unzip the downloaded zip file.
3. Copy the Tinn-R folder to “System (C:) Program Files”
4. Under Program Files/Tinn-R/bin, there is the executable file named “Tinn-R.exe”.
Create a shortcut to this file and place it to some convenient location (e.g., Desktop).
3.1.2 How to Use Tinn-R (PC users)
1. Open R
2. Open Tinn-R, open the accompanying R code (2_RPart.R) from Tinn-R.
3. Arrange the two windows side by side, so that you can see both windows simultaneously
(See the top figure on the next page.)
4. Assign “Hot keys.”
(a) Click R menu of Tinn-R’s, and choose “Hotkeys of R”
(b) A small window will appear (See the bottom figure on the next page).
(c) Choose “Send selection” from the left menu, and then click on “Active” on the
bottom.
(d) Assign a shortcut key of your choosing. I chose “Ctrl + j”
(e) Click “Add”
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