R help - Dec 2008 - Programmatically minimising main R window (on windows)

Hi all,

Is it possible to programmatically minimise the main window of the
windows R gui?  I'm designing a small gui with gwidgets & RGtk2 for an
non-statistician to use, and it would be nice if I could easily hide
all the R stuff that they don't need.

Thanks,

Hadley

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, hadley wickham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to programmatically minimise the main window of the
> windows R gui?  I'm designing a small gui with gwidgets & RGtk2 for
an
> non-statistician to use, and it would be nice if I could easily hide
> all the R stuff that they don't need.
Not from R itself, but you can by Windows script programming (which you 
can launch by 'system'.  It would also be esay to add a small bit of C 
code to do so.

However why are you using Rgui if you don't want a GUI?  That is what 
Rterm or Rscript or embedded R are for.

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