From Mark.Bravington at csiro.au  Thu Apr 29 09:59:41 2004
From: Mark.Bravington at csiro.au (Mark.Bravington@csiro.au)
Date: Thu Apr 29 09:59:53 2004
Subject: [Rd] a simple suggestion for the next version of R windows
Message-ID: <C4178DC99E08604EA5E2BDB989F093800240A25A@extas2-hba.tas.csiro.au>

Hi

Just to point out that Andy's suggestion is implemented automatically in the mvbutils package-- which offers a complete hierarchical structure of workspaces which can be switched, searched, etc. within the same R session. [And much more besides ;)] I try to avoid having multiple R sessions open, because of the danger of losing track and accidentally overwriting things.

mvbutils doesn't change the title bar but if the functionality gets added to R, I'll incorporate it as an option. I too dislike not being able to easily distinguish R icons, which is mainly why I end up working in MDI mode.

Mark

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#[mailto:r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Tao Shi
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#Subject: RE: [Rd] a simple suggestion for the next version of R windows
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#
#Hi, Andy:
#
#Thanks!  I think it also depends on people's working hobby.
#
#What you suggested is a good way around it.  But I'm still 
#thinking since 
#the R window already has the big blue R logo to identify 
#itself, the word "R 
#console" is really redundant and could be replaced by something more 
#informative.  Not nesessarly everytime you change to a new 
#diretory, you 
#need to change to a new identifier, but at least the every 
#first .RData file 
#you loaded.  I don't know.......  Something along that line.  
#It will be 
#very helpful when you use Alt+Tab to move between windows, b/c 
#all you see 
#are "R console"s.......
#
#...Tao
#
#
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#From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw@merck.com>
#To: "'Tao Shi'" <shitao@hotmail.com>,r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
#CC: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
#Subject: RE: [Rd] a simple suggestion for the next version of R windows
#Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 23:18:06 -0400
#
#I don't see how this can work.  I frequently run only one R 
#session (also in
#SDI), but change working directories several times during the 
#session, with
#or without loading the workspace files in those directories, 
#depending on
#what I need to do.  I don't think the Window title can change 
#every time I
#do setwd("somewhereElse"); load(".RData").
#
#One possibility that could probably help you is to change the R command
#prompt from "> " to the current working directory plus "> ".  
#I believe this
#can be done with the taskCallbackManager().
#
#Andy
#
# > From: Tao Shi
# >
# > Is it possible to replace the word "R Console" on the title
# > bar (is it what
# > it's called? It's the blue area above menu bar) with the name
# > of the work
# > space file you're using or loaded, so people who are runing 
#multple R
# > sessions at same time can identify them immediately.  I'm
# > using 1.9.0 in SDI
# > mode.
# >
# > Thanks,
# >
# > ...Tao
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[Rd] a simple suggestion for the next version of R windows
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