The defaults for postscript() paper = "default" onefile = TRUE horizontal = TRUE
(it seems) date from the days when people used to used this to send plots directly to a postscript printer via print.it=TRUE. I haven't done that for years, and it seems that our current generation of students don't even know the concept. It seems 'horizontal = TRUE' is particularly difficult to grasp. Given that I suspect almost all uses of postscript() are to produce plots to be viewed on-screen or incorporated into another document, a more appropriate set of defaults would be width = 7, height = 7 paper = "special" onefile = FALSE horizontal = FALSE which would have the advantage of using the same default aspect ratio for plots as all (?) other R graphics devices. Does anyone see a reason not to change the defaults? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
