R help - Feb 2007 - Rconsole - setting the size and location of Windows help files (Rgui)

Hi,

Using the Rconsole file I can specify the size and location of the Rgui
windows on NT.
e.g.
# Dimensions (in characters) of the console.
rows = 51
columns = 100

How can I specify the size of the help windows that popups 
when I ask for help? e.g. '?help' 
I would like the popup window to have say rows = 51 and columns = 100,
just like the main window but a different location on the screen.

In my .Rprofile file I have set 'options(winhelp=FALSE)'.
                         
platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
arch           i386                        
os             mingw32                     
system         i386, mingw32               
status                                     
major          2                           
minor          4.1                         
year           2006                        
month          12                          
day            18                          
svn rev        40228                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)

Regards,

John.

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Hi,
> # Dimensions(in characters) of the internal pager.
> pgrows = 48
> pgcolumns = 128
Thanks, that worked.

Regards,

John. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talepanda [mailto:talepanda at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 06 February 2007 06:37
> To: Gavin, John
> Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Rconsole - setting the size and location of 
> Windows help files (Rgui)
> 
> For size, maybe:
> 
> # Dimensions(in characters) of the internal pager.
> #pgrows = 25
> #pgcolumns = 80
> pgrows = 48
> pgcolumns = 128
> 
> in Rconsole, but location cannot be handled.
> 
> On 2/6/07, john.gavin at ubs.com <john.gavin at ubs.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using the Rconsole file I can specify the size and location 
> of the Rgui
> > windows on NT.
> > e.g.
> > # Dimensions (in characters) of the console.
> > rows = 51
> > columns = 100
> >
> > How can I specify the size of the help windows that popups
> > when I ask for help? e.g. '?help'
> > I would like the popup window to have say rows = 51 and 
> columns = 100,
> > just like the main window but a different location on the screen.
> >
> > In my .Rprofile file I have set 'options(winhelp=FALSE)'.
> >
> > platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch           i386
> > os             mingw32
> > system         i386, mingw32
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          4.1
> > year           2006
> > month          12
> > day            18
> > svn rev        40228
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John.
> >
> > John Gavin <john.gavin at ubs.com>,
> > Commodities, FIRC,
> > UBS Investment Bank, 2nd floor,
> > 100 Liverpool St., London EC2M 2RH, UK.
> > Phone +44 (0) 207 567 4289
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, talepanda wrote:
> For size, maybe:
>
> # Dimensions(in characters) of the internal pager.
> #pgrows = 25
> #pgcolumns = 80
> pgrows = 48
> pgcolumns = 128
>
> in Rconsole, but location cannot be handled.
For the very good reason that you can have multiple pagers and I at least 
do not want them exactly on top of one another.

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