[R] X11 plot window sizes

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Patrick
Connolly<p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 02-Sep-2009 at 07:02AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> |> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> |> > Hi,
> |> >   I'm not understanding how the width & height parameters are
> |> > supposed to work. When I execute the following 4 commands:
> |> >
> |> > X11()
> |> > X11(width=20, height=20)
> |> > X11(width=20, height=10)
> |> > X11(width=40, height=40)
> |> >
> |> > I get the following *approximate* physical sizes on my screen:
> |> >
> |> > 6" x 6"
> |> > 8" x 8"
> |> > 12" x 6"
> |> > 8" x 8"
> |> >
> |> >   For now I'm assuming that my pointsize isn't quite the same as
> |> > expected (1/72") which probably accounts for why I'm getting 6"
> |> > windows instead of the default 7" window, but why does 20x20 == 40x40,
> |> > and why on the 20x10 version do I get a 6" height?
> |> >
> |> > Thanks,
> |> > Mark
> |> >
> |>
> |> OK, not that anyone doing statistics actually cares about this post
> |> but the internal rules appear to be this:
> |>
> |> 1) DOCUMENTED - X11 does not create an initial drawing window any
> |> larger than 85% of the screen. On my system that's around 10" high on
>
> Where is that documented?  In the help file, I see this:
>
>
> width, height: the width and height of the plotting window, in inches.
>          If 'NA', taken from the resources and if not specified there
>          defaults to '7' inches.  See also 'Resources'.
>
> That's what works on my machine.  Just what happens if you specify
> dimensions larger than the screen seems to be undocumented and I would
> expect the unexpected and that's what you got.
>
> HTH
>
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Read the help file. It's there. Not well written, but it's there and
it does specifiy what happens when you use values larger than 7".

I agree that if you do not specify the height and width you get
something around 7".

- Mark