R devel - Dec 2009 - options(width=100) ignored on start-up: bug or feature?

Dear developers
I've tried this a couple of days ago on r-help, unfortunately with no
feedback. Could you please take a look and confirm whether it's a bug,
feature, or bad eye-sight when reading Help:

 Is it normal that R ignores options("width"=100) at start-up?
Although
 liviu at debian-liv:~$ cat /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site | grep width
 options(width = 100)

 , R will start with
 [Previously saved workspace restored]

 > options()$width
 [1] 80

 Am I doing something wrong?
 Liviu


 > sessionInfo()
 R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

 locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
 [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

 attached base packages:
  [1] datasets  grid      splines   graphics  stats     utils     grDevices
  [8] tcltk     methods   base

 other attached packages:
  [1] fortunes_1.3-6           RcmdrPlugin.HH_1.1-25    HH_2.1-32
  [4] leaps_2.9                multcomp_1.1-2           mvtnorm_0.9-8
  [7] lattice_0.17-26          RcmdrPlugin.sos_0.1-0    RcmdrPlugin.Export_0.3-0
 [10] Hmisc_3.7-0              survival_2.35-7          xtable_1.5-6
 [13] Rcmdr_1.5-4              car_1.2-16               relimp_1.0-1
 [16] sos_1.1-7                brew_1.0-3               hints_1.0.1-1

 loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] cluster_1.12.1

On 12/7/09, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>
wrote:
>   Is it normal that R ignores options("width"=100) at start-up?
Although
>   liviu at debian-liv:~$ cat /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site | grep width
>   options(width = 100)
>
Found the issues. In the config, Rcmdr was starting after the
options() call. Setting them in the following order
library(Rcmdr)
options(width = 100)

solved the issue.

Liviu