Tabula VS vim-sendtowindow

tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.

[0] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java

Ties together a Cuba web app, the tabula-java library and lauch4j to provide a platform executable.

I have been using https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/vim-sendtowindow

I use R with Vim. Usually the R script file is open on top and there is a :terminal window with R running below. And I use a small vim-plugin [1] for sending commands from the editor to the REPL.

This has a few advantages, major being that you can run any language with a dynamic REPL this way, without changing your setup. Or, you can even have two files, written in two different languages, open side by side with a corresponding REPLs running beneath each of them. The downside of course is that you miss on auto-completion and other integrations like that. These are not impossible, but you would have to torture your Vim setup quite a bit in order to implement them.

[1]: https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/vim-sendtowindow

I often have to perform statistical tests on genomic data. Which in practice means running the same test on every gene (row of a matrix). Running it separately on each row is often slow, specially in R. So to speed it up I started an R package "matrixTests": https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/matrixTests which is a lot faster and deals nicely with edge case scenarios (missing values, infinities, empty matrices, etc).

Another notable mention is maybe vim plugin "sendtowindow": https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/vim-sendtowindow which implements an operator for sending text to another window. Handy for sending code in a REPL within vim ":terminal" buffer.