[R] R vs. RStudio?

[peter dalgaard]

On 12 Jan 2015, at 17:24 , Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a reason you don't just click the zoom button?
> Hadley

Two,  I think. One may be a version issue.

1. Some plots will fail if done on the unzoomed device.

2. The zoom featur has a bug (at least on OSX) where it generates a plot that doesn't quite fit the window until it is resized. (I see this with v.0.98.1028)

The first one is a generic issue with R graphics devices: Fonts don't scale proportionally to graphic elements. (One could, I suppose, consider having a graphics device for which zooming really did magnify proportionally, at least as long as the aspect ratio is constant. I.e., the tile would show a linearly shrunken version of the zoomed plot. Not sure how simple this would be to implement.)

-pd

> 
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:22 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>> Dear Peter and Jeff,
>> 
>> I've used RStudio in teaching for quite some time now. For displaying
>> graphics, I open a windows() graphics device on a Windows PC or a quartz()
>> device on a Mac. I explain to the students that they don't have to do this,
>> but I'm doing it so that I can make the graphs larger. There are still some
>> issues arising from the paned display, but I find it reasonably simple to
>> adjust the size of the panes as needed during a demonstration, often pushing
>> the vertical divider far to the right.
>> 
>> Best,
>> John
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