utils (version 3.4.0)

setWindowTitle: Set or get the Window Title, or Set the Statusbar

Description

Set the title of the R window which will appear in the task bar, or of the statusbar (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.

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.

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 statusbar of an MDI frame: if this is not currently shown it is selected and shown.

Examples

## 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)