ess-r-spreadsheet

Simple extension for Emacs ESS to view R’s data in a spreadsheet program. This small elisp is largely insipired by ess-view, but rewrited for my purpose. Currently data.frame (inc. tibble), matrix and vector are supported.

Usage

Open R source file.
Start iESS process.
M-x ess-r-spreadsheet on an object symbol.

Installation

ess-r-spreadsheet is not available through MELPA at this time. First you have to clone the repo.

git clone https://github.com/five-dots/ess-r-spreadsheet.git

Then, add to your load-path and require:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/repo")
(require 'ess-r-spreadsheet)

Or if you like use-package:

(use-package ess-r-spreadsheet
  :load-path "/path/to/repo"
  :commands ess-r-spreadsheet)

Configuration

Default configuration

;; Search executables in the list and use found first.
(setq ess-r-spreadsheet-programs '("libreoffice" "gnumeric" "openoffice" "soffice"))

(setq ess-r-spreadsheet-temp-dir "/tmp/ess-r-spreadsheet/")

TODOs

[x] Unit testing and CI facility
[ ] Write command options
[ ] Expand test coverage
[ ] Windows support
[ ] Prompt for selecting data inside a list object