On 12/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
I'm not so sure about the 'onefile' change. Scripts with multiple plots run in batch mode will end up with multiple files; I prefer the current behaviour. I also have test scripts in packages that go postscript("something.ps") <many examples> dev.off() Unless I change all these to have onefile=TRUE, I'll end up only with the last plot available after the tests are run. -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel