R help - Sep 2011 - R shell line width

Hi,

I want to apologize in advance if this has already been asked. I
wasn't able to find any information, either on google or from local
list search.

I'm running an R shell from a linux command line, in an xterm window.
Whenever I print a data frame, only the first couple of columns are
printed side-by-side, the others are being repositioned below them. It
seems something is limiting the line width of the output, even though
there is enough horizontal space to fit each row on a single line.

For example, this command:
> data.frame(matrix(1:30,nrow=1))
prints columns 1-21 on the first line, and the rest 22-30 on the second.

Is there a way I can configure R to increase the width of my output?

Thanks.

you want

options(width= )

you can edit your .Rprofile file and the .First function in there to set it
when you start R or in the console interactively

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Mike P <mike.polyakov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to apologize in advance if this has already been asked. I
> wasn't able to find any information, either on google or from local
> list search.
>
> I'm running an R shell from a linux command line, in an xterm window.
> Whenever I print a data frame, only the first couple of columns are
> printed side-by-side, the others are being repositioned below them. It
> seems something is limiting the line width of the output, even though
> there is enough horizontal space to fit each row on a single line.
>
> For example, this command:
>
> > data.frame(matrix(1:30,nrow=1))
>
> prints columns 1-21 on the first line, and the rest 22-30 on the second.
>
> Is there a way I can configure R to increase the width of my output?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Hi Mike,

Look at ?options  particularly something like:

options(width = 120)

80 is the default, I believe.  On 1920 pixels I can comfortably get
around 220 (depending on the overhead of the program, full screen,
etc.).  I imagine it would also be possible to run into limitations
from the terminal R is running in, though I do not know that for a
fact.

Cheers,

Josh

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Mike P <mike.polyakov at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to apologize in advance if this has already been asked. I
> wasn't able to find any information, either on google or from local
> list search.
>
> I'm running an R shell from a linux command line, in an xterm window.
> Whenever I print a data frame, only the first couple of columns are
> printed side-by-side, the others are being repositioned below them. It
> seems something is limiting the line width of the output, even though
> there is enough horizontal space to fit each row on a single line.
>
> For example, this command:
>
>> data.frame(matrix(1:30,nrow=1))
>
> prints columns 1-21 on the first line, and the rest 22-30 on the second.
>
> Is there a way I can configure R to increase the width of my output?
>
> 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.
>


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Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
University of California, Los Angeles
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