Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040050
Title:
R script misidentified as MATLAB script/function
Status in “shared-mime-info” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
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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