On 13/12/2009 12:43 PM, Viju Moses wrote:
Thanks for responding.
Problem: When I am typing a command, it does not wrap like it does in this
email while typing. As I reach the right border, a horizontal scroll bar
appears, and as I keep typing further, the initial part of the line starts
disappearing below the left border of the console. So, I am unable to see a
long line completely without moving the scroll bar right and left. R output,
eg >1:120 (as discussed earlier), is wrapped fine.
I find this difficult because I had been using R in Linux (terminal), now it
is necessary for me to use it both in Windows and Linux. My first question
was short because it is exactly the same as in the link I'd pasted. The
purpose of this question is simply to ask how this can be changed. I
understand it's a feature, not a bug.
A screenshot of the R console is attached. Notice the $ on the left and the
scrollbar below.
Hope that's explanation enough. Looking forward to your reply.
This is by design. Carriage returns have syntactic meaning in R, so the
editor shouldn't display phantom ones. In Linux there's no choice
because R doesn't control how text is displayed, but the Windows GUI
gets it right.
Word wrapping in an email is different, because emails generally contain
text, not programs. It becomes problematic when you see things like
alongvariableanme <- anotherlongvariablename
+ 1
and you don't know how R would interpret it, because it might be either
one or two statements.
Perhaps a smart wrapping algorithm could introduce line breaks only
where they don't affect the meaning of the line, but then there would
have to be statements that were unbreakable.
So my advice is simply to put your own line breaks into your code.
Don't use an editor that wraps long lines unless it puts hard breaks
between them.
Duncan Murdoch
-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murd...@stats.uwo.ca]
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 16:35
To: Viju Moses
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a
long line in R GUI
On 12/12/2009 10:34 PM, Viju Moses wrote:
I'm facing this problem on R GUI version 2.10.0 on Windows Vista. I have
not
changed Windows settings or R GUI settings much except to change from MDI
to
SDI.
Someone else reported this problem a few months ago:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-April/195714.html
but it wasn't followed up.
Yes it was, I replied to that message:
Which version are you talking about? I don't recall Rgui ever wrapping
input. The config settings affect output. Maybe you're thinking of
Rterm?
You also don't answer my question. If you are claiming something has
changed, you need to tell us how to see the change.
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