[R] R.xpm?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:16:20 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Bill Simpson <wsi at gcal.ac.uk>
> To: rijn at swi.psy.uva.nl
> cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] R.xpm?
> 
> Thanks Hedderik for fixing up my logo and for putting several up to
> easily grab!
> 
> I thought the other logo people are telling me about was the *CRAN* logo
> rather than the R logo, because it consists of a stylized C (ellipse
> fading out on the right) with superimposed R.

It is used on the R HTML help pages, for example.

A pure `R' version is in the R sources as a Windows icon.

> BTW I like mine better because the scatterplot conveys "stats" visually,
> and the CRAN logo doesn't visually convey what the corresponding program
> does.

One issue is size: 50 x 50 icons can convey more information than 16x16
ones, but one can have fewer such icons.  If I want icons at all, I want lots
of small ones.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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