[R] paper size

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> The ~/.Renviron method should also work in Windows.

Yes, but setting R_PAPERSIZE=a4 on the command line is easier on Windows.

> In Unix you can either set the environmental variable in .Renviron or you
> can change the value in config.site. config.site is a shell script, so
> well may be Unix-specific. However, it (config.site) does yield the
> following useful information

Those are slightly different. If you set it in config.site, it is compiled
in as the default for the environment variable R_PAPERSIZE. People on
Windows are normally using pre-compiled versions.

> (from config.site)
> # The paper size for the local (PostScript) printer.
> # It must either be left blank or set to one of "a4" or "letter".
> # If left blank the system will use "a4".
> # R_PAPERSIZE=a4
> 
> So try setting R_PAPERSIZE=a4 in .Renviron (create a .Renviron if you
> don't have one) and see what happens.
> 
> Note by the way that command line arguments take precedence.
> 
> By the way, I am surprised that your system does not default to A4. I
> thought that A4 defaults were pretty universal (as see the above shell
> script), but maybe not in NT? What default is your system currently using?

The default on all versions of R is "a4", including Windows (both the
Windows developers live in ISO-conformant countries).

I suspect the critical issue is that R_PAPERSIZE *only* applies to the
postscript device, where it supplies the default for the argument `paper'.
There are other printer devices on Windows, and it is likely that
win.print is being used.   That defaults to width=height=7(inches),
and those are arguments passed directly to it.

> I thought letter was the only other major option.
> 
>                              Faheem.
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Kong, Chuang Fong wrote:
> 
> > Thanks but I forgot to mention that I am using Windows NT, will it work the
> > same way? Thanks.
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:faheem at email.unc.edu]
> > 
> > Try setting 
> > 
> > R_PAPERSIZE=a4 or R_PAPERSIZE=A4 in ~/.Renviron if you are using Unix.
> > 
> > I don't have any documentation for this but at least
> > R_PAPRSIZE=letter works for me in ~/.Renviron                

See ?postscript for the documentation, which tells you the other options.

> > 
> >                                  Faheem.
> > 
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Kong, Chuang Fong wrote:
> > 
> > > dear All,
> 
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