[ESS] [External Email] Re: When the R window opens, sometimes it is side-by-side with my .Rnw file. I want them one above the other. It seems unpredictable

[Karlo Guidoni Martins]

Hi Chris,

You can put this in your .emacs file. It should work.

Let me know if everything went well.

Best,

Karlo

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 6:14 PM Christopher W. Ryan via ESS-help <
ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:

> Karlo, can I put that in my .emacs file? I'm not yet familiar with
> init.el.  In fact, I can't find such a file on my system. Would I need
> to create it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Chris
>
> Karlo Guidoni Martins wrote:
> > You can control both window size and position setting the
> > display-buffer-alist variable in your init.el file. The following
> > snippet should work:
> > (setq display-buffer-alist
> >       `(("*R"
> >          (display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-at-bottom)
> >          (slot . 1)
> >          (window-height . 0.3)
> >          (reusable-frames . 0)))
> >
> > Also, have a look at:
> > https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Controlling-buffer-display
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 27, 2022, 18:27 Christopher W. Ryan via ESS-help
> > <ess-help using r-project.org <mailto:ess-help using r-project.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'm using Vince Goulet's modified version of emacs 26.2 (build 1,
> >     x86_64-w64-mingw32)  of 2019-04-13 with ESS, on Windows 10. I use
> Sweave
> >     and LaTeX, so I have my R code in .Rnw files. When I execute my first
> >     line of R code, an R buffer opens of course. I prefer it to be below
> my
> >     Rnw buffer. Sometimes it is. But other times the R buffer opens to
> the
> >     side. It's unpredictable, which is disconcerting; I have not been
> able
> >     to discern a pattern.  How can I ensure that every time emacs/ESS
> opens
> >     an R buffer, the emacs window is split top-and-bottom, rather than
> >     side-by-side.
> >
> >     Thanks.
> >
> >     --Chris Ryan
> >
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