[BlindRUG] How about making WriteR editor Windows executable (*.exe) file?

[Jooyoung]

Dear Henrik,

Thank you so much for your valuable input.
I did not even know I could employ batch file for the value of editor parameter.

I can try write my own batch file to call WriteR.pyw using python; however, for the sake of general use of accessible Rmd editor for those  who do not have python 2.7 and wxPython module installed on their machine, I asked Dr. Godfrey to package the python script as an complete excutable file.

Again, I really appreciate your insightful feedback Henrik, I learned something really useful!

Sincerely,

JooYoung

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Bengtsson [mailto:henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 11:56 AM
To: Blind R Users Group <blindrug at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Jooyoung <jooyoung at psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] How about making WriteR editor Windows executable (*.exe) file?

Without knowing the background, I'd just wanna share that you could specify a BAT file as the 'editor' option and have that BAT file to in turn call your favourite software.

For instance, consider C:/Users/alice/myScript.bat with content:

@echo off
notepad %*

Then you can use:

> options(editor = "C:/Users/hb/myEditor.bat")

With this, the following will open Notepad with buffer "1:3":

> x <- 1:3
> edit(x)

Also, the 'editor' option can be an R function, meaning you could alternatively use R code to properly launch your external software.

/Henrik

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:51 AM, Jooyoung via BlindRUG <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Godfrey,
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> I hope this email finds you well.
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> I was wondering if there would be any way we could make "WriteR" 
> editor written by Python 2.x wxPython into a Windows' executable file 
> using "py2exe" library. The tutorial can be found at 
> http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial
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> The reason why I propose this request is that it is hard to have 
> WriteR editor as a default editor in R without making it Windows executable file.
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> If we can have WriteR as an exe file, we could make the WriteR as a 
> default editor using the following line:
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> options(editor = "C:/{path}/WriteR.exe")
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> For now, I am using Notepad PlusPlus as my default editor in R console 
> so that any file.edit() function can import my target file in NPP.
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> Please consider this request.
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> Sincerely,
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> JooYoung
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