[R] R-Terminal

[Peter Dalgaard]

Martin Kaffanke wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I use an gnome-terminal for using R.  When I resize the termial to the
> maximum size, R uses only the left side of the window.  Can I tell R to
> use the whole window somehow?
>
>   
This seems to do it:

options(width=Sys.getenv("COLUMNS"))        

(Surprisingly, at least to me, the COLUMNS environment variable appears
to be automagically updated by gnome-terminal even after R is started. I
was expecting to have to play with system("tset") and suchlike.)


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