svKomodo: 'SciViews' - Functions to Interface with Komodo IDE
Source:R/svKomodo-package.R
svKomodo-package.RdR-side code to implement an R editor and IDE in Komodo IDE with the SciViews-K extension.
Details
Before RStudio or R addins for vscode were developed and popularized, this was an attempt to develop a complete IDE for R by using Komodo IDE, see https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/. The additional code needed to supplement Komodo IDE with R-related features was implemented in two parts: (1) The SciViews-K (https://github.com/SciViews/sciviewsk) addin for Komodo and (2) the present svKomodo R package that work hand in hand to provide R code intelligence, an object explorer, an integrated R Console, a document format similar to R Markdown, but using ASCIIDoc instead of Markdown, and more.
The development of this extension for Komodo IDE was stopped in 2016 because it was too similar to RStudio that emerged at that time as one of the preferred editor/IDE for R. The SciViews IDE using Komodo never was enough advertised, nor documented to gain a significant useR base.
Nevertheless, the SciViews-K Komodo addin and the svKomodo R package implemented features that may be interesting in a different context. The interaction of R and Komodo and the remote R Console in Komodo use communication protocols developed in the svSocket and svHttp R packages. As such, it is an example of R -JavaScript code to interact with R in a non-blocking way that could be reused in any other software that implements its UI using HTML + JavaScript. The consequent JavaScript code developed for the R object explorer may be worth looking at, for instance.
Both SciViews-K and svKomodo should be considered archived items. I keep them "alive" in the hope that their code could be useful to others in similar contexts. See the other man pages for further explanations.
See also
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