Ubuntu
shared-mime-info package

R script misidentified as MATLAB script/function

Bug #1040050 reported by Hendrik
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shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

This has been observed on Ubuntu 11.04 and 12.04 (so it probably also occurs in 11.10).

An R script (http://www.r-project.org/) is a text file with the extension ".R". If the file starts with a comment (the first line starts with "##") - which is very common for source code - the file type listed in Nautilus is "MATLAB script/function". This is annoying given that R can be seen as competitor to MATLAB.

If the file doesn't start with "##", it is identified as "plain text document", which is not really specific, but also not wrong.

I would suggest to identify text files as "MATLAB script/function" only if they have the appropriate extension ".m". This should also solve bug #319533. Further, it would be nice to add a file type for "R script".

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in shared-mime-info (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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