for OSX just add this to your ~/.bash_profile  alias
r=’/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/R’  ...open terminal and type r


bam!


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek@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.sund@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
> >
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