| setWindowTitle {utils} | R Documentation |
Set the Window Title or the Status Bar of the RGui in Windows
Description
Set or get the title of the R (i.e. RGui) window which
will appear in the task bar, or set the status bar (if in use).
Usage
setWindowTitle(suffix, title = paste(getIdentification(), suffix))
getWindowTitle()
getIdentification()
setStatusBar(text)
Arguments
suffix |
a character string to form part of the title |
title |
a character string forming the complete new title |
text |
a character string of up to 255 characters, to be displayed in the status bar. |
Details
setWindowTitle appends suffix to the normal window
identification (RGui, R Console or
Rterm). Use
suffix = "" to reset the title.
getWindowTitle gets the current title.
This sets the title of the frame in MDI mode, the title of the console
for RGui --sdi, and the title of the window from which it was
launched for Rterm.
It has no effect in embedded uses of R.
getIdentification returns the normal window identification.
setStatusBar sets the text in the status bar of an MDI
frame: if this is not currently shown it is selected and shown.
Value
The first three functions return a length 1 character vector.
setWindowTitle returns the previous window title (invisibly).
getWindowTitle and getIdentification return the current
window title and the normal window identification, respectively.
Note
These functions are only available on Windows and only make sense when
using the Rgui. E.g., in Rterm (and hence in ESS)
the title is not visible (but can be set and gotten), and in a version of
RStudio it has been "", invariably.
Examples
if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows") withAutoprint({
## show the current working directory in the title, saving the old one
oldtitle <- setWindowTitle(getwd())
Sys.sleep(0.5)
## reset the title
setWindowTitle("")
Sys.sleep(0.5)
## restore the original title
setWindowTitle(title = oldtitle)
})