Open up an arbitrary R script to see the effects of setting the rappster color theme. In the left pane (), select color theme rappster and click the button. Select the XML file you just downloaded ( theme-6130.xml). In Eclipse, go to and click on button. Sounds like a classic first-world problem too many plugins to choose from. If you venture beyond the official marketplace you will find hundreds of other plugins developed to be compatible with your Eclipse IDE. Go to and download the XML file associated to the color theme. 1,667 available plugins and solutions on the Eclipse marketplace online By the time you read this there are probably even more. The R programming IDE is RStudio, and Figure 2-2 shows its intelligent code completion. In case of a security warning, accept the further installation by clicking on the button. Today, Visual Studio, NetBeans, and Eclipse are the most famous IDEs. Find entry and click on the button, then the button, accept the terms of the license agreement and click the button. Go to and enter Color Theme in the text box and hit the key. 
The website of the maintainers can be found at This plugin enables the use of predefined color themes for text editors.
Wait for the installation to complete and restart Eclipse by clicking on button. Find category, expand it, find sub-category, check its check box, click on the button, click on it again in the next screen that appears, accept the terms of license agreement in the next screen that appears, then finally click on the button. 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 Eclipse’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 don’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 I’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. I’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.
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