[R] Rprofile: distinguish between Rgui, Rterm, JGR?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu May 27 20:41:33 CEST 2010


Michael Friendly wrote:
> [Environment: Win XP, R 2.10.1]
>
> In my Rprofile I have startup code to do various things, intended for 
> when I use the Rgui console.
> Some of these are causing problems in JGR now that I've installed it.  
> How can I test for R
> running with Rgui to do some of these things only there?
>
>   
Look at .Platform$GUI.  It shows "Rgui" or "RTerm" for those two.  I 
don't have JGR installed, but I'd guess it shows something differently 
there.

Duncan Murdoch



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