[BlindRUG] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: Greetings from RStudio

[Liz Hare]

Hi Ahmed,

I've been using R on a Mac for about six years.

I work in Terminal, in the Emacs editor.

There's screen reading software specifically for Emacs called Emacspeak that you can install on Mac:
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net

Emacs and emacspeak have steep learning curves but they are powerful.

I use ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) to help Emacs interact with R. You can have your R code in one buffer and the output in another buffer and easily switch buffers to read your output.
https://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download

Please let me know if you have any questions,
Liz

> On Mar 12, 2020, at 7:21 PM, Ahmed Hamdy via BlindRUG <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Garry and hi all,
> Thanks so much for sharing that with us Garry, I personally tried different softwares and unfortunately so far I can’t find an accessible one, I hope that RStudio would improve.
> For all, can anyone tell me how to get R for Mac? And whether there is any podcasts/articles on how to use it with screen readers specially VoiceOver?
> 
> Thanks and best regards
> 
> Ahmed
> 
> 
>> On Mar 12, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Robin Williams via BlindRUG <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you for the introduction and your hard work, Gary. Most people at my workplace are big R Studio fans, and I hope one day to join them. It'll take a lot to persuade me away from my current workflow of Emacs and ESS, but I'm more than happy to test R Studio releases as they come out and provide feedback.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Robin
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BlindRUG <blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Gjalt-Jorn Peters via BlindRUG
>> Sent: 12 March 2020 08:53
>> To: blindrug at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: Gjalt-Jorn Peters <gjalt-jorn at behaviorchange.eu>
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: [BlindRUG] Greetings from RStudio
>> 
>> Dear Gary and all,
>> 
>> Thank you for this work! Hearing about the update really made my day.
>> 
>> I teach at the Dutch Open University, and I've been supporting a blind student 1-on-1. She's been working with the standard R interface, but that, too, isn't obvious to use with the screenreader that came with the new version of macOS (apparently).
>> 
>> So this update comes heaven-sent! I'll gladly keep you updated as to what we run into.
>> 
>> This might be my first post in this group, so I'm not sure of group etiquette. Is this something to keep sharing in the group, or is individual contact preferred?
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Gjalt-Jorn
>> 
>> 
>> 
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