Package: r-cran-rcmdr Version: 1.3-15-1 R Commander is used as a graphical interface to R, which means a graphical application, and as such should be listed somewhere in the Applications menu.
This can be obtained by just adding to the package the following two
files:
/usr/bin/rcmdr :
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#!/bin/sh
R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES="$R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES Rcmdr" R
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/usr/share/applications/rcmdr.desktop :
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[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Education;Science;Math;
Comment=Graphical interface to the R environment for statistical
computing
Comment[fr]=Environnement graphique pour le logiciel de calcul
statistique R
Comment[it]=Interfaccia grafica per l'ambiente di calcolo statistico R
Exec=/usr/bin/rcmdr
Icon=/usr/share/R/doc/html/logo.jpg
Name=R Commander
Terminal=true
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
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Please notice that:
- I would have preferred to not put R Commander under "Education", since
this is quite reductive. However, I'm afraid this is inevitable (see for
instance [0]).
- I'm filing the bug here, I frankly ignore if upstream is interested in
this kind of desktop issues; the maintainer has probably better
knowledge than me. Anyway, the patch has almost no maintenance cost,
since it doesn't touch upstream code.
- the rcmdr miniscript is itself quite useful (I do use it often); it
would also be possible for upstream to adopt only that, and then the
".desktop" could be added as a Debian patch, don't know.
- the only thing I don't like in this setup is that menu item uses (jpg)
R icon, not R Commander's one... that I was unable to find (though it
appears in the interface, so I imagine is dinamicly generated).
Eventually, it could be "staticized" and added too
as /usr/share/pixmaps/rcmdr.svg; then the line of the .desktop file
could be changed from
Icon=/usr/share/R/doc/html/logo.jpg
to
Icon=rcmdr.svg
.
Pietro
[0]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331142
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