On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Millo Giovanni wrote:
The only thing I wish I were able to do now is to have the graphics
windows defaults changed to a size fitting the small 9'' screen, as now
I have to reduce it and move it to the right by hand every time to
reproduce the results of 'windows>tile" in Windows. If anybody can
help...
That'll be something like X11.options(width=4,height=4,pointsize=8) in
your ~/.Rprofile
You need grDevices::X11.options, and it is better to use a load hook like
setHook(packageEvent("grDevices", "onLoad"),
function(...)
grDevices::X11.options(width=4,height=4,pointsize=8)
)
Thanks, Brian.
Obviously, I haven't used this for a while and overlooked the example in
the Examples section of ?Startup.
I do wonder if there are ways to make this less easily overlooked,
though. Pointers in any or all of ?x11, ?X11.options, and ?Devices could
help, but maybe we need it in an introductory document like R-intro,
along with the discussion of Rprofile files in "Customizing the
environment".
I've added examples in ?X11.options, ?quartz.options and ?windows.options
for now. (?X11 and ?X11.options are the same help page.)
R-intro is slightly odd in that it and not R-admin has startup info, and
it is scattered across 3 sections -- but at least one of those references
?Startup.
There is another way to set the geometry, to set X11 resources as
described in ?X11. I have in my ~/.Xresources
R_x11*geometry: 700x700-0+0
(for a 22" 90dpi screen, not a 9" one)
That doesn't help with the pointsize, does it? (Quite crucial on low-res
screens, even at 1024x768, 12.3" I find that the default pointsize=12 is
a bit much.)
No -- I was really pointing it out for completeness and 'the geometry' was
inserted to try to make this clear.
One thing that is a bit odd is that we have ways (two each) to set the
initial position of the default device on X11 and Windows, but AFAICS none
on Mac OS X.
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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