Vim R plugin installation issue

[samden]

I am attempting to install the vim R plugin on Hardy, and am rather confused. I am not sure whether I have installed the plugin but can't figure out how to use it, or if it isn't installed at all.

I have:
- Installed R from the Ubuntu repositories
- Installed gVim using Synaptic
- added Johannes Ranke's Debian sid repository (deb http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke/debs sid-jr/) to my /etc/apt/sources.list
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install vim-r-plugin

Installation of the plugin seemed to go fine. However I don't see any option for it in vim. When in vim I:
- Change filetype to r (:set ft=r)
- Press F2. This should bring up a console running R, in theory. But the computer just beeps at me, and nothing happens.

More information on this plugin may be found at:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1048
http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/...ge=vim_R_linux

Do I just not understand how to use the plugin? Or has it not installed correctly? If anyone can offer any advice I would be most grateful. I am a complete novice on vim by the way, this is the first time I have used it.

[peterff]

I've also struggled with installing vim plugins. I noticed this section under "install details" on the first page:

Note that you have to activate addons like this plugin since vim version
7.1-022+1, July 2007. For system-wide activation, use

$ vim-addons -w install r-plugin

(details in README.Debian).

Have you tried that? As an alternative, you might try downloading the archive on that page and extracting it to ~/.vim/plugins.

[samden]

Ok, that fixed it. Just made myself look a bit stupid there, didn't read the instructions properly!

Thanks heaps.

[timbosity]

Samden,

I see you got it fixed up
Good work. I had the same problem after upgrading to Hardy on laptop: ie the F2 key would no longer load an xterm with R running. Re-installing plugin with the system wide thing above got it fixed.

[achristoffersen]

Sorry - i don't know wether I should start a new thred, as this is already marked as 'solved'? Anyways - here goes:
When I:

vim-addons -w install r-plugin

I get

Info: ignoring 'r-plugin' which is neither removed nor broken

Then in Vim (or gvim - tried both) I press F2 - nothing happens... Any ideas?

Intripid

[achristoffersen]

If I open an r. script, go to visual-mode (v) and select some r-code and then press "r" i get this error message: "~/.r-pipe" E212: Can't open file for writing

Hope somebody can help

[azvoleff]

Same problem here. The plugin appears to be installed properly, except when I hit <F2> an xterm window opens and then immediately closes.

[helmingstay]

Instructions didn't quite work for me on gutsy or intrepid.

I used the etch-jr archive (deb http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke/debs etch-jr/ ), all goes fine. When i run "vim-addons -w install r-plugin" i get the following:

Warning: Ignoring unknown addons: r-plugin

I can copy or link the files manually from
/usr/share/vim/addons/ftplugin/
to ~/.vim, and then everything works very well. I edited r.vim to open gnome-terminal, which has a slightly different syntax...

***-T becomes -t, -e becomes -x

"Start a listening R interpreter in new xterm
noremap <buffer> <F2> :!gnome-terminal -t 'R' -x funnel.pl ~/.r-pipe "R && echo -e 'Interpreter has finished. Exiting. Goodbye.\n'"&<CR><CR>

incidentally, my system-wide install of syntax/r.vim wasn't working from a previous .vim/filetype.vim entry, causing great confusion. I had to change
au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.r,*.R setfiletype R
to
au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.r,*.R setfiletype r

hope this helps.

[jalvesaq]

I'm developing a new plugin based on the work of Johannes Ranke. The plugin allows the user to kill R from vim. It also has omni completion of R objects and correct indentation of R code.

I think people reading this thread may be interested in testing the plugin and reporting bugs. The plugin is here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2628

[Carambakaracho]

I'm testing it. Glad someone keeps on developing that script.