Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
ugs.debian.org; John Fox | > Subject: Re: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu | > | > Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 16.38 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha | > scritto: | > > Pietro, | > > | > > The png is fine -- what I meant to say was that the Debian

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
dr", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";). Please let me know if there's problem. Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: Pietro Battiston [mailto:too...@email.it] > Sent: March-07-09 5:47 PM > To: Dirk Eddelbuettel > Cc: 518...@bugs.debian.org; Jo

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Dirk, > -Original Message- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: March-07-09 5:37 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Dirk Eddelbuettel'; 'Pietro Battiston'; 518...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: RE: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in appl

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 16.38 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha scritto: > Pietro, > > The png is fine -- what I meant to say was that the Debian build process did > not like the binary nature of the png file as an addition, which is why I > created a new 'pretend' version 1.4-7.1. > > We can

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Pietro, The png is fine -- what I meant to say was that the Debian build process did not like the binary nature of the png file as an addition, which is why I created a new 'pretend' version 1.4-7.1. We can switch to the svg as well, I will leave that up to you and John. Dirk -- Three out

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi John, On 7 March 2009 at 17:19, John Fox wrote: | Dear Dirk and Pietro, | | Just to be clear, I'll put these three files in install\etc\linux. OK? I think you meantinst/etc/linux and not install, ie right next to the existing Rcmdr,xbm: e...@ron:~/src/debian/CRAN/Rcmdr-1.4-7.1> ls -R

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 17.20 -0500, John Fox ha scritto: > Dear Pietro and Dirk, > > Now I'm not sure what to do. Do you want me to use this icon file for the > one that Dirk sent? Well, to be honest I have no idea. And sorry if I didn't answer where to put them: for me it's OK, I'd leave

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
ugs.debian.org; John Fox > Subject: Re: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu > > This is the same image, slightly smaller in size. > > Pietro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
x > Subject: Re: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu > > > I didn't add the attachment, did I ? Here it is... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
This is the same image, slightly smaller in size. Pietro <>

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 15.08 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha scritto: > I had some difficulties with the build process as the diff utility did not > like the new binary .png file. I'm attaching an svg version. It is more than 10 times bigger in size, but may solve your problem (and also be a b

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I didn't add the attachment, did I ? Here it is... Rcmdr-addons.tar.gz Description: Binary data Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Pietro, Nice work. I now drop a slightly modified file r-cran-rcmdr.desktop into /usr/share/applications and it gets picked up automatically on Ubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.1 and Debian testing with KDE 3.5. The new menu entry appears in both Education->Mathematics and Education->Science with KDE 4.1

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 March 2009 at 19:58, Pietro Battiston wrote: | Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 11.01 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha | > This leaves my terminal in a funny state after R / Rcmdr exit and I always | > have to call reset. | | I don't see this particular problem - running Ubuntu Intrepid. Me too.

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 11.01 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha scritto: > On 7 March 2009 at 17:40, Pietro Battiston wrote: > | Well, as you prefer. I can certainly create a man page, obviously very > | small, almost a debianized > | <> > | , but this raises another problem to me: maybe I sh

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Dirk and Petro, > -Original Message- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: March-07-09 12:01 PM > To: Pietro Battiston; 518...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel; John Fox > Subject: Re: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Dirk and Pietro, > -Original Message- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: March-07-09 12:19 PM > To: Pietro Battiston > Cc: John Fox; 'Dirk Eddelbuettel'; 518...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: RE: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in appl

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 11.18 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha scritto: > Pietro, > > On 7 March 2009 at 17:48, Pietro Battiston wrote: > | Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 09.59 -0500, John Fox ha scritto: > | > One problem is that Rcmdr, via its R CMD INSTALL > | > > mechanism, has no means of r

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
Pietro Battiston [mailto:too...@email.it] > Sent: March-07-09 11:48 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Dirk Eddelbuettel'; 518...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: RE: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu > > Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 09.59 -0500, John Fox ha scritto: > >

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Pietro, On 7 March 2009 at 17:48, Pietro Battiston wrote: | Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 09.59 -0500, John Fox ha scritto: | > One problem is that Rcmdr, via its R CMD INSTALL | > > mechanism, has no means of reaching /usr/share/applications/ | > > | > > CCing John upstream. | > | > Was there

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 March 2009 at 17:40, Pietro Battiston wrote: | Well, as you prefer. I can certainly create a man page, obviously very | small, almost a debianized | <> | , but this raises another problem to me: maybe I should also enchance | slightly the rcmdr script so that it forwards command line ar

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 09.59 -0500, John Fox ha scritto: > One problem is that Rcmdr, via its R CMD INSTALL > > mechanism, has no means of reaching /usr/share/applications/ > > > > CCing John upstream. > > Was there something you wanted from me here? Probably, what we wanted from you was

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno sab, 07/03/2009 alle 08.40 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha scritto: > Pietro, > > Thanks for the bug report. Thank you both for the prompt answer! > On 7 March 2009 at 12:24, Pietro Battiston wrote: > | R Commander is used as a graphical interface to R, which means a > | graphical applica

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Dirk and Petro, > -Original Message- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: March-07-09 9:41 AM > To: Pietro Battiston; 518...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: John Fox > Subject: Re: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu > > >

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Pietro, Thanks for the bug report. On 7 March 2009 at 12:24, Pietro Battiston wrote: | 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 pack

Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Battiston
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 : -