How to rename R icon in Windows' XP taskbar?

Question

How to rename R icon in Windows' XP taskbar ? To display for example "R 2.13.0" instead of "RGui" ? Is it possible to do that from the inside of R (from the level of console) ?

ps. I'm not interested in building new form modified source

Answer 1

Right click on the icon on your desktop or on the Programs popup (in Windows) and "Rename" should be one of the options. You are only renaming the icon, not the R executable. Doing it from within R would be very painful (if it's even possible).

Answer 2

And more interesting thing :

for(i in 1:1000) {
     setWindowTitle(title=paste(i), suffix='')
     Sys.sleep(0.5)
}

which gives number of iteration in taskbar, that doesn't work at RStudio, unfortunately parameter of Sys.sleep() must be quite big, so it's useful only for loops with long time of execution of each iteration