for OSX just add this to your ~/.bash_profile alias r=â/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/Râ ...open terminal and type r
bam! On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>wrote: > 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 âfine tuningâ 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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