I just gave this a test drive and a drawback I found was that the paste is
no longer ctrl-shift-v (i.e. close enough to ctrl-v that I can get used to
it) but rather shift-insert.

Does anyone know if there any other drawbacks to this xterm approach?

Tom

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I just tried the following in Gnome on Debian:
>
> [A]: Launcher icon on the main window.
> 1. On the "root window" (i.e. the background), click with the
>   right mouse button.
> 2. You then get a menu. Choose "Create Launcher".
> 3. Give it (e.g.) "Name: R", "Generic Name: R", "Comment: R".
>   (you can change these to what you like: "Name" is what appears
>   beneath the icon).
> 4. Enter the command you want to use to start R, including to
>   start up the terminal window it will run in, e.g.
>   xterm  -geometry 80x52+0+25 -e R &
> 5. Click "OK", and you should then have a working R-launcher.
>
> [B]: Lancher icon on the task-bar (panel).
> 1. Right-click the panel. Choose "Add to panel".
> 2. Double-click "Custom Application Launcher (Create a new lancher)"
> 3. Proceed as in (3), (4), (5) above.
>
> NOTE: Instead of explicitly writing the terminal program in the
> Command, in either case, you can check the "Run in terminal"
> button in the launcher setup. However, you then don't have control
> over features of the terminal window (e.g. size, background and
> foreground colours, etc.)
>
> Hoping this helps,
> Ted.
>
> On 06-Jul-08 16:32:09, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> > On 6 July 2008 at 10:38, COREY SPARKS wrote:
> >| R won't appear under the applications.  Go to the terminal (in the
> >| accessories menu) and type R.  It will run in command line.
> >| You might also want to install r-base-dev if you want to compile
> >| libraries.
> >
> > For the record, under Kubuntu, I see it via the
> >     Debian -> Applications -> Science -> Data Analysis -> GNU R
> > menu path which makes sense given this menu file in the package:
> >
> > ?package(r-base-core):        \
> >       needs="text"    \
> >       section="Applications/Science/Data Analysis"    \
> >       title="GNU R"   \
> >       command="/usr/bin/R"
> >
> > Why Gnome doesn't show this I do not know but I'd be happy to fix that
> > in the
> > package. If somebody knows how to setup proper menu files, let me know.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
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