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by thalesmello 3108 days ago
As much as I love Vim and R, I think the experience is pointless without embedded graphs. It would be perfect if it was possible to view a graph in a Vim split.
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stewbrew 3108 days ago
If you want graphs, you're probably not working at the terminal anyway and you're most likely using gvim that integrates nicely with our desktop environment. You can display the R graphics next to the gvim window.
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voxadam 3108 days ago
This sounds like an excellent use case for withoutboat's[1] (aka tatterdemalion[2]) notty[3] terminal protocol project.

[1] https://github.com/withoutboats [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tatterdemalion [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

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petepete 3108 days ago
Could Tektronix emulation somehow be used for this? Then you could, in theory, display graphs in a vim/tmux split

http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/~schaft/mxterm/pictures/tek.gif

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baldfat 3108 days ago
I used TMux to do exactly that. It worked good BUT RStudio is so good.

The enemy of Vim with R is RStudio. It works so well for me I haven't fired up Vim with R in over 3 years. Also I find RStudio Vim to be good enough for me.

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