Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/12/2009 5:22 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: "This is by design. Carriage returns have syntactic meaning in R, so the editor shouldn't display phantom ones. In Linux there's no choice because R doesn't control how text is displayed, but the Windows GUI gets it right." I

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Carl Witthoft
Duncan Murdoch wrote: "This is by design. Carriage returns have syntactic meaning in R, so the editor shouldn't display phantom ones. In Linux there's no choice because R doesn't control how text is displayed, but the Windows GUI gets it right." I have to disagree here. Soft-wrapping is the

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
sage- From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 23:48 To: Viju Moses Cc: Jorge Ivan Velez; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI Many applications have what is known as "s

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Viju Moses
rds, Viju -Original Message- From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 23:48 To: Viju Moses Cc: Jorge Ivan Velez; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI Many applications have w

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
eaks into your code. Don't use an editor that wraps long lines unless it puts hard breaks between them. Duncan Murdoch -Original Message- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murd...@stats.uwo.ca] Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 16:35 To: Viju Moses Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Ista Zahn
> From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 19:01 > To: Viju Moses > Cc: Jorge Ivan Velez; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a > long line in R GUI > > H Viju, > Automatically

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Viju Moses
] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI H Viju, Automatically breaking _input_ lines is dangerous, because line breaks have meaning in R. It sounds to me like you need to use the Return key to insert line breaks at the appropriate places. -Ista On Sat, D

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Viju Moses
Hope that's explanation enough. Looking forward to your reply. -Original Message- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murd...@stats.uwo.ca] Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 16:35 To: Viju Moses Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/ed

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Ista Zahn
z [mailto:jorgeivanve...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 9:09 > To: Viju Moses > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a > long line in R GUI > > > > Hi Viju, > > > > Here is a sug

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/12/2009 10:34 PM, Viju Moses wrote: I'm facing this problem on R GUI version 2.10.0 on Windows Vista. I have not changed Windows settings or R GUI settings much except to change from MDI to SDI. Someone else reported this problem a few months ago: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/20

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-12 Thread Viju Moses
day, December 13, 2009 9:09 To: Viju Moses Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI Hi Viju, Here is a suggestion: R> options(width = 80) R> 1:120 HTH, Jorge On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:34

Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-12 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Viju, Here is a suggestion: R> options(width = 80) R> 1:120 HTH, Jorge On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Viju Moses <> wrote: > I'm facing this problem on R GUI version 2.10.0 on Windows Vista. I have > not > changed Windows settings or R GUI settings much except to change from MDI > to >

[R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

2009-12-12 Thread Viju Moses
I'm facing this problem on R GUI version 2.10.0 on Windows Vista. I have not changed Windows settings or R GUI settings much except to change from MDI to SDI. Someone else reported this problem a few months ago: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-April/195714.html but it wasn't followed