Changing default R window under XP
On Sat, 17 May 2003, David Parkhurst wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. I don't know the abbreviations SDI and MDI.
So you've never read the R for Windows README, for example? Surely it is reasonable to expect people to be familiar with README when they ask how to do things? (They are standard Windows terms, BTW.)
However, I have just recently installed R on a new hard drive, and by default, it (R) does come up full screen. That is, the middle button of the three in the upper right corner of its window has an icon with two windows. (When clicked, that puts the window in partial screen.) If it were not full screen, that button would show a single window.
Yes, that's what happens, and that is what *maximized* means. Do look those terms up in your Windows help, to help you understand those who use them in the standard way.
Also, I tried right clicking on my R icon to set properties, where I thought I could specify command-line options like "--sdi" to see what would happen, but I don't see a way to do that in XP. (I'm pretty sure I could do that in earlier versions of the windows OS.)
I've never seen an XP where it did not work on a shortcut.
Also, in the Rconsole file, I changed the line"MDI = yes" to "MDI = no," but that didn't seem to make any difference that I can see.
It's in the documentation: you add --sdi to the end of the target in the properties of the shortcut. Changing the right Rconsole file does work ....
As for recompiling, I use Fortran (90), and don't have a C compiler.
They are free, and fully documented: again, please read the documentation.
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