menuAdd(menuname)
menuAddItem(menuname, itemname, action)
menuDel(menuname)
menuDelItem(menuname, itemname)
menuNames()
menuItems(menuname)"none" for no action. Use "enable" or
"disable" to activate or desactivate an existing menu item.NULL invisibly. They are used for their
side-effect of creating, changing, or deleting custom R menus.winMenuAdd() and similar function do. Menus are added to the right
and new menu entries are added to the bottom of the menu. It is currently
not possible to add menus for Rterm.exe under Windows.
On Mac OS X, AppleScript custom application folder is used by default. It
can be used only with R.app and you can access it through Mac script menu
displayed in menu bar (to activate it, open Utilities -> AppleScript editor,
then, go to Preferences... and check 'Show script menu in menu bar'). Custom
R menus will be visible as folders in this menu bar item only when R.app or
R64.app is the formost application. there is an alternate interface using the
XMenu menu bar applet. It works with both R.app and R run in a terminal, but
you have to install and customize it first. Install XMenu from
http://xmenu.en.softonic.com/mac. You should use the custom commands only for
R custom menus, because svDialogs will erase everything in it everytime the
package starts!
Configure XMenu to display only User-Defined items, and name it "R". Select
"Folders before files". For icons, best rendering is obtained with "None,
Big font". For menu titles, select "Text" for entries that look like real
menus. Be sure to check also "Start at login". Selection of XMenu instead of
AppleScript menus is not automatic, but it can be enabled in two different
ways: (1) by entering option(useXMenu = TRUE), or by placing a "R"
file or folder in '~/Library/Application Support/XMenu'.
On Unix/Linux, under Gnome, you must install xvkbd and the file-browser-applet
for Gnome. Under Ubuntu, you make:
sudo apt-get install file-browser-apple
sudo apt-get install xvkbd
You need to log out and in again to make the applet available. Then, you need
to install and configure a file browser applet in a panel right-click in a
panel, select 'add to Panel...' and drag&drop a 'File Browser'. Right-click on
the file browser and select 'Preferences'. In the preference box, eliminate
the default entry (Home) and add all subdirectories from
~/Scripts/Applications/R. You can access R menus from there, and it sends
corresponding commands to the focused window (e.g., a terminal running R)
If you know of a similar applet for KDE or Unity on Ubunut, please, contact
me!
On both Mac OS X and Unix/Linux, menus and menu items are sorted
alphabetically. So, to respect a given order, choose the name of your menus
and menu items carefully. Possibly prepend items with space(s) to push them
up in the list.
Action is treated as R input (echoed at the command line, parsed and
executed), except if it is "none". In this case, no action is
done when the menu item is selected (merely as a placeholder for future
menu actions). You can change the action of an existing menu by reissuing
the command with a different action argument.
If the menuname parameter of menuAddItem() does not exists, it is
automatically created. For creating submenus, separate successive menu
names with slashes. Use "-" as name for separation menus under
Windows.guiDlg, guiEval## Add a menu and two entries
menuAdd("Test")
menuAddItem("Test", "List objects", "ls()")
menuAddItem("Test", "List search paths", "search()")
## Add a submenu implicitly
menuAddItem("Test/Submenu", "Current working dir", "setwd()")
## Remove Test menu and submenus
menuDel("Test")Run the code above in your browser using DataLab