Message-ID: <5AAE37D9-9E9C-4DBF-B215-4DA2CEC7954F@me.com>
Date: 2010-12-29T18:01:32Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: icon for an R package
In-Reply-To: <4D1B70A0.8020201@yorku.ca>
On Dec 29, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Michael Friendly wrote:
> 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