Yes, I found the width option in the help pages, but I was wondering if there was automatic setting of the wrapping according to the current window width.
Your function works exactly as I wished. I'll probably get smarter with time (I hope) but would it be reasonably good practice to stick this into ~/.Rprofile? I don't suppose there is a way to have it automatically invoked when the window size/positition changes? (It's still priceless even without automatic triggering). On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:20 PM, MacQueen, Don <macque...@llnl.gov> wrote: > A lot of this depends on what context you are running R in, e.g., > Windows console, Mac console, or command line in a unix-alike. Or > within ESS in emacs. Those are different interfaces supported by, to > some extent, different people, and are based on the underlying > capabilities provided by the operating system. > > Have you yet encountered > options()$width > ? > For example, > options(width=100) > will cause wrapping at 100, at least for certain kinds of output. > > In an xterm shell running in an X windows context, I frequently use > > setwid <- function () > { > if (!interactive()) > return(invisible(NULL)) > scon <- pipe("stty -a") > stty <- scan(scon, what = "", sep = ";", quiet = T) > close(scon) > cstr <- stty[grep("columns", stty)] > options(width = as.numeric(gsub("[^0-9]", "", cstr, ignore.case = T))) > paste("width =", options()$width, "\n") > } > > A function I wrote that resets the width option to match the window > widths, and therefore adjusts the wrapping after I resize a windwo. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.