[R] R shell line width

[Mike P]

Thank you very much for your responses! This is exactly what I needed.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Look at ?options  particularly something like:
>
> options(width = 120)
>
> 80 is the default, I believe.  On 1920 pixels I can comfortably get
> around 220 (depending on the overhead of the program, full screen,
> etc.).  I imagine it would also be possible to run into limitations
> from the terminal R is running in, though I do not know that for a
> fact.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Mike P <mike.polyakov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to apologize in advance if this has already been asked. I
>> wasn't able to find any information, either on google or from local
>> list search.
>>
>> I'm running an R shell from a linux command line, in an xterm window.
>> Whenever I print a data frame, only the first couple of columns are
>> printed side-by-side, the others are being repositioned below them. It
>> seems something is limiting the line width of the output, even though
>> there is enough horizontal space to fit each row on a single line.
>>
>> For example, this command:
>>
>>> data.frame(matrix(1:30,nrow=1))
>>
>> prints columns 1-21 on the first line, and the rest 22-30 on the second.
>>
>> Is there a way I can configure R to increase the width of my output?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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> Joshua Wiley
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