[R] R vs. RStudio?

[John Fox]

Dear Hadley,

On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:24:35 -0600
 Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a reason you don't just click the zoom button?
> Hadley

Yes: To have enough room for the console and script panes, I often have to make the graphics pane too small to display a graph in the first place.

John

> 
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:22 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> > Dear Peter and Jeff,
> >
> > I've used RStudio in teaching for quite some time now. For displaying
> > graphics, I open a windows() graphics device on a Windows PC or a quartz()
> > device on a Mac. I explain to the students that they don't have to do this,
> > but I'm doing it so that I can make the graphs larger. There are still some
> > issues arising from the paned display, but I find it reasonably simple to
> > adjust the size of the panes as needed during a demonstration, often pushing
> > the vertical divider far to the right.
> >
> > Best,
> >  John
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of peter
> >> dalgaard
> >> Sent: January-12-15 9:00 AM
> >> To: Jeff Newmiller
> >> Cc: R mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12 Jan 2015, at 09:28 , Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > If you have two screens the "zoom" plot window can fill the second
> > screen.
> >> Some laptops can handle a second external screen if you use a docking
> >> station.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, such luxury is not available in the classroom. All too
> > often, the
> >> projector setup is calibrated to display 3-bullet PowerPoint
> > presentations...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000
> >> Frederiksberg, Denmark
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