icon for an R package

On 12/29/2010 11:02 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Michael Friendly wrote:

I'm looking for an icon to represent an R package.  Perhaps something 
like

http://cdn2.iconfinder.com/data/icons/DarkGlass_Reworked/128x128/apps/package.png 


but with the R logo rather than KDE.

Can't you just get the location of an "R" at CRAN?

http://cran.r-project.org/Rlogo.jpg

Sorry for not being clearer.  What I want is an icon for a *package*, 
such as I gave in the iconfinder link
above, but with the R logo *superposed*. Such 3D icons are common in the 
Mac world, but I couldn't
find anything similar for R, so thought I'd ask before trying my (poor) 
hand with PhotoShop or something
similar.

Michael,

Are you referring to an icon that would be displayed for an R package when browsing in a file manager, such as Nautilus, Konqueror or Finder?

If so, those icons are typically associated with a file using MIME types and are based upon the file type in question having a unique extension and perhaps being associated with a particular application that is installed.

Since R packages are either .zip files or tar archive files (.tar.gz or .tgz), they will use the default theme icons for the OS/File Manager in use for those extensions, possibly for the archiving application associated with those file types.

I don't know of any way off-hand, to differentiate R packages from other files that have the same extensions and therefore have a unique icon displayed in the respective file manager application.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz