| setWindowTitle {utils} | R Documentation |
Set or get the Window Title
Description
Set the title of the R window which will appear in the task bar.
Usage
setWindowTitle(suffix, title = paste(getIdentification(), suffix))
getWindowTitle()
getIdentification()
Arguments
suffix |
a character string to form part of the title |
title |
a character string forming the complete new title |
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.
Value
All 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.
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)