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.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() ?
Perhaps (but not matching X11 nor windows). Would anyone notice the difference? One argument against is that I now think the default pointsize in pdf() is too large for the default device region. I would have suggested 8x6 (which is what the MASS scripts use) apart from the R preference for square device regions. Thanks to Deepayan & Marc for other comments: I will have some follow-up comments in due course. > > 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? >> > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
