working on a remote R session

Question

The R session that I am working on is on a remote cluster due to memory contraints and the data is stored remotely. I am therefore using notepad++ to edit my files and just paste them into my SSH session as I go along. What is the best way to integrate with the remote session to take advantage of code completion and other things available in editors like RStudio. Any best practice suggestions about working on remote connections? I imagine this must be the case for most R users who work with large data sets.

Answer 1

From: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/projects/Editors.html

The famous Vim editor now also provides syntax highlighting for R. You can get a plugin to integrate R here . For Windows, there is another plugin using R-DCOM here . There is an alternate, multiplatform, plugin here. Also look at the VIM web site, because there are other interesting resources there for R users (see here for an overview). There is also an R package to better integrate debugging facilites in Vim: adtdbg