Notepad++ with NppToR

Notepad++ is an all purpose replacement for Notepad under Windows. It has advanced editing features and loads very fast.

NppToR adds syntax highlighting, code folding, and auto-completion for the R language to Notepad++. It also allows code passing between Notepad++ and the R.

Notepad++ has lots of features. The website mentions

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag 'N' Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

You should install R before installing Notepad++ and NppToR. The menu at the left will help you in installing, configuring, and using Notepad++ and NppToR with R.