#Eclipse ide for r portable

Go to and select the entry in the drop-down menu that corresponds to the identifier of the respective Eclipse version.

Create an R script file in your R project.

Confirm the switch to the StatET perspective.

Create an R project in the Package Explorer/Project Explorer (depends on perspective): right click, then.

If you ran the configuration once, it shows up in the run configurations short cuts list (little black arrow next the the bigger green/white arrow button in EclipseвЂ™s icon bar. This is more or less self explanatory once you find and double click on the category.

Next you need to set up at least one R run configuration.

Go to, enter the StatET URL that is associated to your Eclipse version (check this at ), click the button, assign a name (StatET) and click your way through the further installation process.

Open up Eclipse, select a working directory.

go to, grab the desired version of the Classic Installer (Eclipse Classic 3.x.x).

If you donвЂ™t have a recent Eclipse installation together with the StatET plugin yet, then Unfortunately, the StatET editor is not available for previews at Eclipse Color Themes website, so IвЂ™ve added a couple of screenshots of how the theme handles the syntax highlighting of R code:

#Eclipse ide for r portable

The nice thing with those color themes is that you can make your syntax highlighting settings portable as you can simply import the theme of your choice in another instance of Eclipse, e.g. The outcome is a little color theme called rappster. IвЂ™ve played around a bit with the Eclipse Color Themes plugin by Felix Dahlke and Roger Dudler as they added support for the R editor that ships with plugin StatET late last year.