Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-16 Thread dankelley
I think you should change anything you want to change, on the assumption that most users are setting things by themselves, anyway. Now may be the time to change anything that you (and those kind enough to reply to your post) would like to see changed. For an example, I really like the ratio of

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-11 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:30 +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I think everyone who commented has overlooked that the defaults for these > postscript() arguments are set by ps.options(), so in fact we are talking > about the defaults for the defaults. Unfortunately, the documentation on > this

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think everyone who commented has overlooked that the defaults for these postscript() arguments are set by ps.options(), so in fact we are talking about the defaults for the defaults. Unfortunately, the documentation on this was full of errors, including not pointing out that some of the ps.o

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-06 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On 06/12/2007, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 00:32 -0800, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > On 12/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The defaults for postscript() > > > > > > paper = "default" > > > onefile = TRUE > > > horizontal = TRUE > > > > >

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Paul Murrell wrote: > Hi > > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> The defaults for postscript() >> >> paper = "default" >> onefile = TRUE >> horizontal = TRUE >> >> (it seems) date from the days when people used to used this to send plots >> directly to a postscript printer via print.

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-06 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > The defaults for postscript() > > paper = "default" > onefile = TRUE > horizontal = TRUE > > (it seems) date from the days when people used to used this to send plots > directly to a postscript printer via print.it=TRUE. I haven't done that > for years, and it s

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 00:32 -0800, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On 12/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The defaults for postscript() > > > > paper = "default" > > onefile = TRUE > > horizontal = TRUE > > > > (it seems) date from the days when people used to used this to send plot

Re: [Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-06 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 12/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The defaults for postscript() > > paper = "default" > onefile = TRUE > horizontal = TRUE > > (it seems) date from the days when people used to used this to send plots > directly to a postscript printer via print.it=TRUE. I haven't done tha

[Rd] Defaults for postscript()

2007-12-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The defaults for postscript() paper = "default" onefile = TRUE horizontal = TRUE (it seems) date from the days when people used to used this to send plots directly to a postscript printer via print.it=TRUE. I haven't done that for years, and it seems that our current generation of students don