Editing R code with vim

A lot of you use R and some of you write R code with vim. Currently, if you edit a .r file in vim, it thinks you're editing a REXX program. Here's how to change that

1. create a ~/.vim directory, if you don't already have one.

2. add the three lines:

"Detect R (the statistical package) files with .r extension

if exists("did_load_filetypes")

finish

endif

augroup filetypedetect

au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.r setfiletype r

augroup END

to the top of ~/.vim/filetype.vim, create the file if necessary.

**You can also copy ~krish/.vim/filetype.vim to ~/.vim/.

Next time you open a .r file in vim, it will know that it's an R file.

Switching from a .c file to its corresponding .h file

There is a vim package for switching from a .c file to its corresponding .h file and in reverse, it also works for C++. I've modified it to work with Jim's source tree (i.e. where the .h files are in ../inc/ and .c files are in ../lib/).

Copy ~krish/.vim/plugin/a.vim to ~/.vim/plugin/a.vim. Now :A will switch to the .h or .c file corresponding to the current file. :AS will open the .h or .c file corresponding to the current file in a new window.