Here's another way to have different behaviour only for interactive sessions:
if (interactive()) {
winMenuAdd(menuname, NULL, NULL) # etc.
}
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From: Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
To:<jgar...@ija.csic.es>
CC:<r-help@r-project.org>
Date: 13/Feb/2010 6:15 a.m.
Subject: Re: [R] Selective load of .First() function just for Rgui.exe
On 12/02/2010 11:22 AM, jgar...@ija.csic.es wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a .First <- function() {...} in the Rprofile.site file. Through
> .First() I'm adding several menus to the GUI to access several functions
> I've been developing for own use.
>
> However, I also need to launch R scripts silently in a batch way, and
> in this case I get the error message:
>
> "Error in winMenuAdd(menuname, NULL, NULL):
> Menu functions can only be used in the GUI"
>
> Do you know about about a way to selectively read the .First()
> function just for Rgui.exe, but not for call to R.exe?
The .Platform variable contains a list of things that identify the
current platform. In Rterm (or R.exe) you'll have .Platform$GUI ==
"RTerm", whereas in Rgui, it will be "Rgui".
Duncan Murdoch
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