R help - Dec 2010 - Controlling print width settings for 'print' on command line

Hi,

I'm using R interactively from a PuTTy command line, and when I print a
dataframe (default, but just entering the name of the data frame), the
display is using only half of the available horizontal width in which to
print columns.  How to I tell R how many columns it can/should use for
printing?

Thanks,
Matt

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Hi Matt,

I'm not certain if this will work with PuTTy, but in general (and on
Konsole/other terminals I've run R in) you can set it with the
"width"
argument of options() see:

?options

I believe it is 80 by default, so something like:

options(width = 160)

might be about right.

Cheers,

Josh

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Matthew Pettis <matthew.pettis at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using R interactively from a PuTTy command line, and when I print a
> dataframe (default, but just entering the name of the data frame), the
> display is using only half of the available horizontal width in which to
> print columns. ?How to I tell R how many columns it can/should use for
> printing?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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