Papersize can be set at compile time in the 'config.site' file (R_PAPERSIZE).
-roger Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > Prof. Ripley, > > Happy to help. > > So, it sounds like we are thinking along the same lines then. > > A couple of follow up questions: > > 1. Is R_PAPERSIZE_DEFAULT to be the proposed new compile time setting in > 2.4.0? Unless I missed it, I did not see it documented anywhere (ie. > R-admin/NEWS for 2.2.1 patched or 2.3.0 devel) and it is not in the > configure related files that I have here. > > 2. For LC_ALL, it is not set (at least on my FC4 system, have not had > the time yet to go to FC5) in en_US.UTF-8. Is it set in other locales > such that it would be of value? > > > Thanks also for the pointer to the devel guidelines. I had read through > them at some point in the past, but it has been a while. > > Regards, > > Marc > > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 18:48 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Marc, >> >> Thanks for the comments. The 2.3.x series is in feature freeze, and >> although a few features do break though for patch releases, they had >> better be `badly needed' see >> http://developer.r-project.org/devel-guidelines.txt). >> >> So I was thinking of 2.4.0. >> >> My suggestion was going to be along the lines of >> >> local({ >> papersize <- as.vector(Sys.getenv("R_PAPERSIZE")) >> if(!nchar(papersize)) { >> lcpaper <- Sys.getlocale("LC_PAPER") >> if(nchar(lcpaper)) >> papersize <- if(length(grep(, lcpaper)) > 0) "letter" else "a4" >> else papersize <- as.vector(Sys.getenv("R_PAPERSIZE_DEFAULT")) >> } >> options(papersize = papersize) >> }) >> >> This is unchanged if LC_PAPER is unset. For those with LC_PAPER set, >> its value takes precedence over the compile-time default. That's almost >> exactly equivalent to what happens on Windows (which sets LC_MONETARY for >> this purpose, as LC_PAPER is not a locale category there). >> >> Now, one could argue that if LC_PAPER is unset it should default to >> LC_ALL, but I think is less desirable. >> >> Of course, at present Sys.getlocale("LC_PAPER") is not supported, so >> that's part of the TODO. >> >> Brian >> >> >> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:09 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>>> R uses the environment variable R_PAPERSIZE to set its papersize, e.g. for >>>> postscript. >>>> >>>> It seems the modern way is to via LC_PAPER, e.g. >>>> >>>> http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-05/msg00010.html >>>> >>>> and Googling will show that people expect this to work. >>>> >>>> However, that is not set on my FC3 system, and it would affect people who >>>> use en_US as their locale in, say, Austria. >>>> >>>> Should we be making use of LC_PAPER, or would it just cause further >>>> complications? (On Windows, the locale name is used to set the default >>>> papersize, but there it is unlikely to be set inappropriately.) >>> >>> Here's my 0.0162 Euros (at current conversion rates): >>> >>> For R 2.4.0, announce that LC_PAPER will become the default environment >>> variable used to set the default R papersize and then not set >>> R_PAPERSIZE by default (ie. in build scripts, etc.) >>> >>> However, If someone sets R_PAPERSIZE in their site or local profile, >>> this will supercede the LC_PAPER setting. This would allow for a R >>> setting that may need to be different than the system default. >>> >>> Doing this for 2.4.0 (as opposed to 2.3.x) would give folks notice and >>> time to consider the impact on their local installations and code, while >>> enabling future users to take advantage of the standard. >>> >>> I think that in general, R should abide by published standards unless >>> there are very compelling reasons not to. >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> Marc Schwartz >>> >>> >>> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
