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Message-ID: <1204718177.5697.20.camel@martin-laptop>
Date: 2008-03-05T11:56:17Z
From: Martin Kaffanke
Subject: R-Terminal
In-Reply-To: <200803041323.23822.elff@sowi.uni-mannheim.de>

Thats really great, but now the sink() uses also this width.  Is it
possible to make sink using another width (i.e. 80 characters)?

Thanks,
Martin


Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 13:23 +0100 schrieb Martin Elff:
> 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
> 
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