Matthew Fero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
?options #... and look at the width parameter > options(width = 100) > 1:40 [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 [33] 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 There may be Mac specifics in your question since you note resizing "fixes" the problem in some instances. After a day or two, you might post it again on the Mac-SIG list ... after you do further experiments with code from the scripts that exhibit this output anomaly. > I'm wondering if someone can tell me how R determines where to wrap > lines in its output. > > I'd like to understand this because occasionally often after running > a script the output of R no longer wraps at the correct location. > For example, the statement, '1:40' would ordinarily return something > like this... > > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 > 18 19 20 > [21] 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 > > and is instead returning longer lines like this... > > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 > 18 19 20 > 21 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 > > As you can imagine this makes it hard to read output because the > results no longer line up in nice columns. This seems to happen > without my having resized the window but resizing the window can > occasionally make it better. > > Other details: > System: Mac OS X v.10.4.11 > Running R from command line (Terminal.app) or from R.app > > ______________________________________________ > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
