I suspect that the answer is "no", but just in case, is there a way to have R detect the window width and wrap accordingly? I don't want to set an option every time I dock a window or shrink it. In my ideal paradise, R would not only format output according to window width, but it would also me to specify a virtual window width. So if I specify a virtual window width of 200 characters, and the actual window width is 100, then the output has a carriage return at the 200 character mark but I only see the 1st 100 characters of each line of text (the rest being truncated from view). And of course, the user would be able to specify when the virtual width mirrors the actual window width. I know that this is dreaming in technicolour (which is not that fantastical these days), but I would be pleasantly surprised if there was a way to simply have the output wrap according to the actual window width.
A lot of this depends on what context you are running R in, e.g., Windows
console, Mac console, or command line in a unix-alike. Or within ESS in
emacs. Those are different interfaces supported by, to some extent,
different people, and are based on the underlying capabilities provided by
the operating system.
Have you yet encountered
options()$width
?
For example,
options(width=100)
will cause wrapping at 100, at least for certain kinds of output.
In an xterm shell running in an X windows context, I frequently use
setwid <- function ()
{
if (!interactive())
return(invisible(NULL))
scon <- pipe("stty -a")
stty <- scan(scon, what = "", sep = ";", quiet = T)
close(scon)
cstr <- stty[grep("columns", stty)]
options(width = as.numeric(gsub("[^0-9]", "", cstr,
ignore.case = T)))
paste("width =", options()$width, "\n")
}
A function I wrote that resets the width option to match the window
widths, and therefore adjusts the wrapping after I resize a windwo.
--
Don MacQueen
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On 4/17/15, 3:52 PM, "paul" <paul.domaskis at gmail.com> wrote:
>I suspect that the answer is "no", but just in case, is there a
way to
>have R detect the window width and wrap accordingly? I don't want to
>set an option every time I dock a window or shrink it.
>
>In my ideal paradise, R would not only format output according to
>window width, but it would also me to specify a virtual window width.
>So if I specify a virtual window width of 200 characters, and the
>actual window width is 100, then the output has a carriage return at
>the 200 character mark but I only see the 1st 100 characters of each
>line of text (the rest being truncated from view). And of course, the
>user would be able to specify when the virtual width mirrors the
>actual window width.
>
>I know that this is dreaming in technicolour (which is not that
>fantastical these days), but I would be pleasantly surprised if there
>was a way to simply have the output wrap according to the actual
>window width.
>
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Yes, I found the width option in the help pages, but I was wondering if there was automatic setting of the wrapping according to the current window width. Your function works exactly as I wished. I'll probably get smarter with time (I hope) but would it be reasonably good practice to stick this into ~/.Rprofile? I don't suppose there is a way to have it automatically invoked when the window size/positition changes? (It's still priceless even without automatic triggering). On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:20 PM, MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov> wrote:> A lot of this depends on what context you are running R in, e.g., > Windows console, Mac console, or command line in a unix-alike. Or > within ESS in emacs. Those are different interfaces supported by, to > some extent, different people, and are based on the underlying > capabilities provided by the operating system. > > Have you yet encountered > options()$width > ? > For example, > options(width=100) > will cause wrapping at 100, at least for certain kinds of output. > > In an xterm shell running in an X windows context, I frequently use > > setwid <- function () > { > if (!interactive()) > return(invisible(NULL)) > scon <- pipe("stty -a") > stty <- scan(scon, what = "", sep = ";", quiet = T) > close(scon) > cstr <- stty[grep("columns", stty)] > options(width = as.numeric(gsub("[^0-9]", "", cstr, ignore.case = T))) > paste("width =", options()$width, "\n") > } > > A function I wrote that resets the width option to match the window > widths, and therefore adjusts the wrapping after I resize a windwo.