R help - Dec 2009 - lines don't wrap. must scroll horizontally to see/edit a long line in R GUI

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. 

I'd change the settings on Preferences, but there's no help explaining
the
various options. (That's another problem, by the way... Is there a link you
know?)

I guess fixing this would be straightforward. Hope someone who did will
reply. Thanks.

Hi Viju,

Here is a suggestion:

R> options(width = 80)
R> 1:120

HTH,
Jorge


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 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.
>
> I'd change the settings on Preferences, but there's no help
explaining the
> various options. (That's another problem, by the way... Is there a link
you
> know?)
>
> I guess fixing this would be straightforward. Hope someone who did will
> reply. Thanks.
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
>
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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.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> I'd change the settings on Preferences, but there's no help
explaining the
> various options. (That's another problem, by the way... Is there a link
you
> know?)
> 
> I guess fixing this would be straightforward. Hope someone who did will
> reply. Thanks.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
  "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."


I have to disagree here.  Soft-wrapping is the default option in most 
editors, and the OSX R.app gui wraps both input and output.  It's pretty 
easy to tell a bunch of code is (or isn't) all one line unless you don't
believe in prompts or something :-).

Carl