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Changing default R window under XP

4 messages · David Parkhurst, Brian Ripley

David Parkhurst
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I?m working with R 1.7.0 under windows XP.  Whenever I start the program, it
comes up full screen, and I have to resize it to suit my preferences.   How
can I make it come up at a particular size (but not full screen) every time?



Thanks.

Dave Parkhurst
Brian Ripley
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One possibility is to use SDI mode (e.g. --sdi)
On Sat, 17 May 2003, David Parkhurst wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
If you are in MDI, it actually comes up maximized, not full screen (so
e.g. the taskbar is still shown). The initial size appears to be set in
line 728 of src/gnuwin32/rui.c, so you could change that and re-compile R.

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      David Parkhurst
    

    

      
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Thanks for the quick response.  I don't know the abbreviations SDI and MDI.
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.

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.)  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.

As for recompiling, I use Fortran (90), and don't have a C compiler.

Further help would be welcome.
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "David Parkhurst" <parkhurs at ariel.ucs.indiana.edu>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Changing default R window under XP

            

      
      
      
    

        
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On Sat, 17 May 2003, David Parkhurst wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
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.)

            

      
      
      
    

        
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.

            

      
      
      
    

        
I've never seen an XP where it did not work on a shortcut.

            

      
      
      
    

        
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
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They are free, and fully documented: again, please read the documentation.