[Rd] Sweave trims console output in "tex" mode

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Jan 3 10:57:54 CET 2014


>>>>> Kirill Müller <kirill.mueller at ivt.baug.ethz.ch>
>>>>>     on Fri, 3 Jan 2014 02:04:06 +0100 writes:

    > On 01/03/2014 01:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
    >> But results=tex is not the default.  Having defaults for
    >> one option depend on the setting for another is
    >> confusing, so I think the current setting is appropriate.

    > True. On the other hand, I cannot imagine that
    > "results=tex" is useful at all without
    > "strip.white=FALSE". If the strip.white option would
    > auto-adjust, things would "just work". Anyway, I'm not a
    > very active user of Sweave.

I think in this case,  it would be quite useful if  strip.white
got a new default,  say "adaptive",  which would becomde FALSE for
'results=tex'.

Otherwise, for "safety", we'd have to recommend that 
'results=tex' is always combined with  strip.white=FALSE, 
which I'd find quite inconvenient.

Martin

    > -Kirill

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