Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-21 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:56 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> gannet% locale -ck LC_PAPER >> LC_PAPER >> height=297 >> width=210 >> paper-codeset="ISO-8859-1" > BTW, on my FC4 system: > > $ locale -ck LC_PAPER > LC_PAPER > height=279 > width=216 > paper-codeset="UTF-8" 2

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> It does not exist in any system at present (not even mine): just an idea in >> my head to represent the default found at configure time. >> >> In some sense LC_PAPER is set on FC3: >> >> gannet% locale -ck LC_PAPER >> LC

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-21 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > It does not exist in any system at present (not even mine): just an idea > in my head to represent the default found at configure time. > > In some sense LC_PAPER is set on FC3: > > gannet% locale -ck LC_PAPER > LC_PAPER > height=297 > width=210 > paper-codeset="ISO-8

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:56 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > > > Roger, > > > > Thanks. > > > > Yes, this I know. In fact I have a line in my shell script for building > > R[-patched]: > > > > ./configure R_PAPERSIZE=letter > > > > > > R_PAPER

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > Roger, > > Thanks. > > Yes, this I know. In fact I have a line in my shell script for building > R[-patched]: > > ./configure R_PAPERSIZE=letter > > > R_PAPERSIZE is document in several places, however R_PAPERSIZE_DEFAULT > is not, unless I am

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
Roger, Thanks. Yes, this I know. In fact I have a line in my shell script for building R[-patched]: ./configure R_PAPERSIZE=letter R_PAPERSIZE is document in several places, however R_PAPERSIZE_DEFAULT is not, unless I am going blind in my middle age... :-) Regards, Marc On Thu, 2006-04-

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Roger D. Peng
Papersize can be set at compile time in the 'config.site' file (R_PAPERSIZE). -roger Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > Prof. Ripley, > > Happy to help. > > So, it sounds like we are thinking along the same lines then. > > A couple of follow up questions: > > 1. Is R_PAPERSIZE_DEFAULT to be the

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
Prof. Ripley, Happy to help. So, it sounds like we are thinking along the same lines then. A couple of follow up questions: 1. Is R_PAPERSIZE_DEFAULT to be the proposed new compile time setting in 2.4.0? Unless I missed it, I did not see it documented anywhere (ie. R-admin/NEWS for 2.2.1 patche

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Marc, Thanks for the comments. The 2.3.x series is in feature freeze, and although a few features do break though for patch releases, they had better be `badly needed' see http://developer.r-project.org/devel-guidelines.txt). So I was thinking of 2.4.0. My suggestion was going to be along th

Re: [Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:09 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > R uses the environment variable R_PAPERSIZE to set its papersize, e.g. for > postscript. > > It seems the modern way is to via LC_PAPER, e.g. > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-05/msg00010.html > > and Googling will show th

[Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

2006-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
R uses the environment variable R_PAPERSIZE to set its papersize, e.g. for postscript. It seems the modern way is to via LC_PAPER, e.g. http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-05/msg00010.html and Googling will show that people expect this to work. However, that is not set on my FC3 system, a