[R] Adding submenus to existing consol GUI menu

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, simon gatehouse wrote:

> If possible I would like to add two sub-menus to the R Console under
> Windows.
>
> For example, I would like to add:
> winMenuAddItem("File", "Load CSV...", "loadCSV()")
> winMenuAddItem("File", "Save CSV...", "saveCSV()")
>
> and have them appear under the initial 'File' item rather than add a new
> 'File' menu item. I seem to recall from somewhere that this is
> inadvisable, however is it possible from within R and if so what might
> be the consequences of  such additions?

It was not part of the design.  Since R is Open Source it is 'possible', 
but I doubt it is easy.  The system menus are coded in C in file 
src/gnuwin32/rui.c: their implementation is orthogonal to the facility to 
add user menus.

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