[R] Getting the current number of rows in windows R gui console (Carlos Arias)

2014-01-21 Thread Carlos Arias
Hello, I'm currently trying to set some default settings and I know how to
get the width of the console with getOption(width), this corresponds to
the number of columns of the console in the Rconsole file. I would also
like to get the current number of rows from inside R. Is there an R option
to get this value?

Thank you,

Carlos Arias

Statistician at ICFES Colombia

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Re: [R] Getting the current number of rows in windows R gui console (Carlos Arias)

2014-01-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch

On 14-01-21 7:27 PM, Carlos Arias wrote:

Hello, I'm currently trying to set some default settings and I know how to
get the width of the console with getOption(width), this corresponds to
the number of columns of the console in the Rconsole file. I would also
like to get the current number of rows from inside R. Is there an R option
to get this value?



options(width) gives you the line length that various R functions use; 
it doesn't necessarily tell you the window width.  (Setting the window 
width does update the option value, but not vice versa.)


There aren't functions to get window size at the R level, though you 
could theoretically use getWindowsHandle() to get the handle of the R 
console Window, and use Windows API functions to get its measurements. 
You can use loadRconsole() to load new settings from a file.


Duncan Murdoch

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