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Ok, I have tried to move this a step forward. I have created a small tool similar to the tool mentioned above with SPSS. It's a small command line that will shovel commands to and from R using the socket server.

Executable is located at
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10592797/send.zip

The git repository with README is located at
https://github.com/randomjohn/Ultraedit-to-R
(If you get the executable above you do not have to download the source or compile it.)

There are a lot of rough edges, as I am only a hobbyist at best when it comes to C programming (and especially this type of programming -- I basically ripped off the winsock tutorial at MSDN), but hopefully this represents a step forward in this issue. It is also not for the faint at heart - to get the best use out of this you need to understand custom tools, macros, and scripting. As for setting up things on the R end, it is really not that hard. You will need the svSocket package, which is easily installed. Then you issue the commands
library(svSocket)
startSocketServer()
in R, and then you can minimize the program. Then you set up a tool as described in the readme (visit the github site for the README, please!) and then can create macros and scripts to call the tool as needed. Things will not echo on the R end as you would expect coming from Tinn-R, but maybe someone enterprising can write a function to do that in R.

Thanks @johndjohnson that sounds like an interesting find. Have to investigate. I've occasionally been tempted to try one of the auto-- systems, but have always been stymied by the existential dilemma of "autohotkey or autoit?"

Meanwhile, what I've done more recently is switch to routinely using the new open source ide: Rstudio. http://www.rstudio.org The initial version was released recently and even tho it is v 0.9x or whatever, it is absolutely great. I installed it the day it was announced, said "my that looks nice" and went back to work as usual with UE & Tinn-R. --but within about 2 days I found I'd switched to using UE&rstudio period!! I do my main editing in UE and then keep one or more modules open as I need them in rstudio--they interact fine together.

I use rstudio & UE on my main win system & rstudio on my mac laptop. I haven't yet adopted UE for osx & the editor in rstudio is okay for the limited editing I do on the laptop. Inasmuch as the mac rgui differs from the win rgui--it is a great benefit to me that rstudio itself looks & behaves pretty much identically on both systems (some minor differences in editing rprofile.site, but that's expected). The rstudio editor is much more modest than UE & system will presumably continue to improve.

The UE&rstudio combo doesn't solve this thread's original problem of not being able to send code from UE to r, but the other benefits of rstudio's ide--for me--tilt the balance in favor using this combo. I'm very happy using them.

Thanks for the kind words.

Not to flog a dead horse, but I've found yet a third solution to this issue over at http://batchfiles.googlecode.com/. I haven't tested it out yet, but there appears to be some very useful files for integrating Ultraedit (or other text editors) with R. Ones I found of immediate interest are clip2r.js and some of the .bat files that retrieve the directory of the latest R from the Windows registry. At first glance, the advantage of these is that they take advantage of elements already in Windows rather than requiring the installation of a helper app.

It's been over four years since this post was last edited and I'm wondering if during that time there have been any advances to make execution of R script from within UltraEdit easier to get up and running?

I recently installed Sublime Text and was able to get it to execute R using some very easy to follow guidance (<650 words) found here: Using R in Sublime Text 3

Seems like UltraEdit would similarly have a recipe for writing script and sending it over to R 1 line at a time, blocks of lines, etc. Is the best solution simply to switch text editor venues?