That seems a bit convoluted to me. For a clickable document you can simply create R.command containing single line R
If you want an app, just open the Automator, pick Application type, select "Run Shell Script" with single line open -a Terminal /usr/bin/R Cheers, Simon On Jan 23, 2014, at 6:09 PM, Reijo Sund <reijo.s...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > There have recently been some problems while running packages using Tcl/Tk > with R.app GUI under Mac Os X Mavericks (10.9). It is also well known that it > is not a good idea to work with R.app and a custom builded R that uses the > Aqua version of Tcl/Tk. > > Simple solution for these problems is to use command line R (i.e. R in > terminal window) instead of R.app GUI. Although it is not particularly > difficult to launch terminal application and then R from the prompt, it would > be nice to have an icon on the dock to launch the command line R with one > click. > > After some experiencing with AppleScript, I ended up with the following > script. There was a need for some ”fine tuning” to deal with problems of > Terminal app scripting without manually changing preferences of Terminal app > (problems include that in certain cases more than two windows are created > instead of one and that it is not trivial to close (only) the correct window > after quitting R under the default settings of terminal). > > ----------------- > > property commandString : "R --no-save --no-restore; screen osascript -e 'tell > application \"Terminal\" to close (every window whose name contains \"Survo > R\")'; exit 0" > > tell application "System Events" > if (count (processes whose name is "Terminal")) is 0 then > tell application "Terminal" > activate > do script commandString in window 1 > > tell window 1 > set custom title of first tab to "Survo R" > end tell > end tell > else > tell application "Terminal" > activate > do script commandString > set currWin to index of first window > > tell window currWin > set custom title of first tab to "Survo R" > end tell > end tell > end if > end tell > > ----------------- > > The script can be run in AppleScript editor (located in > /Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor), but for the actual use it is > useful to File->Export it to Application. Created app works just like any > other Mac OS X application and you can drag it to the dock to get the > functionality to launch command line R with one click. > > It is certainly unnecessarily complicated for novice users to create the app > themselves, so the distribution of the final app (instead of the script) > would probably be a more reasonable idea. It is also likely that there are > better, safer and more portable ways to provide such a functionality (across > Mac OS X versions), but at least the basic idea can be tested with the script > above. > > So, finally, my question is: Would it be a possible and maybe even a good > idea to include this kind of Rterm shortcut app functionality to the R binary > for Mac OS X distribution or to make it available from some of the official R > Mac OS X pages? > > Best wishes, > Reijo Sund > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
