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 seems that our current generation of students don't even > know the concept. It seems 'horizontal = TRUE' is particularly difficult > to grasp. > > Given that I suspect almost all uses of postscript() are to produce plots > to be viewed on-screen or incorporated into another document, a more > appropriate set of defaults would be > > width = 7, height = 7 Wouldn't that be better as width = 6, height = 6 to match pdf() ? Paul > paper = "special" > onefile = FALSE > horizontal = FALSE > > which would have the advantage of using the same default aspect ratio for > plots as all (?) other R graphics devices. > > Does anyone see a reason not to change the defaults? > -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
