TODO: Rmarkdown syntax highlighting in vim - lmmx/devnotes GitHub Wiki

• Installing vim r-plugin requires a version of Vim compiled with +libcall, +clientserver and +conceal features
• My version lacks the +clientserver option (as previewed with :version in normal mode or vim --version) so I'll have to rebuild it from source
• There's an example of doing this on StackOverflow here
• A Knitr issue thread details the task too

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \
libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev

...

~ $ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Picking 'vim' as source package instead of 'vim-gnome'
E: Unable to find a source package for vim