R-Terminal

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 (12:34:47), Peter Dalgaard wrote:

Martin Kaffanke wrote:

Hi there!

I use an gnome-terminal for using R.  When I resize the termial to the
maximum size, R uses only the left side of the window.  Can I tell R to
use the whole window somehow?

This seems to do it:

options(width=Sys.getenv("COLUMNS"))

(Surprisingly, at least to me, the COLUMNS environment variable appears
to be automagically updated by gnome-terminal even after R is started. I
was expecting to have to play with system("tset") and suchlike.)

That seems to work also with KDE's "Konsole". 

It may be worthwile considering
to implement some automatic width-adjustment like:

.adjustwidth <- function(...){
	options(width=Sys.getenv("COLUMNS"))
	TRUE
}

addTaskCallback(.adjustwidth)

After that, the output width is adapted to the actual terminal width
each time one hits return.


Just my 20 cents.
Best,
Martin