title: R text editors for introductory statistics courses
body: <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Possible Duplicates:</strong><br />
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439059/best-ide-texteditor-for-r">Best IDE / TextEditor for R</a><br />
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1173463/recommendations-for-windows-text-editor-for-r">Recommendations for Windows text editor for R</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Dear All,</p>
  <p>I teach a large introductory R course (about 100 students), and would like to recommend suitable text editors for R. The students who attend this course are first year mathematics undergraduates doing their very first course in R. They have never programmed in any language before.</p>
  <p>For the vast majority of them, it wouldn't beneficial for them to learn to use a 'complex editor' - by this I mean <em>emacs</em> and <em>vi</em>.</p>
  <p>What I would like to do is recommend simple text editors that are</p>
  <ul>
  <li>free</li>
  <li>can be easily installed on their laptops by users with little computer knowledge</li>
  <li>have R syntax highlighting.</li>
  <li>available for Windows or Mac.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>For windows I've found:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TINN-R</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Notepad ++</a> with the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/npptor/files/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">R plugin</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>Are there any others that I've missed for Windows?</p>
  <p>There are a few threads that deal with R text editors:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439059/best-ide-texteditor-for-r">Best IDE / TextEditor for R</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1173463/recommendations-for-windows-text-editor-for-r">Recommendations for Windows text editor for R</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1097367/which-ide-for-r-in-linux">Which IDE for R in Linux?</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>but these are a bit too complicated for my purpose.</p>
  <h1>Edits</h1>
  <p>Following comments from Shane and others I've reworded the question.</p>