>>>>> On Wed, 12 May 2004 11:23:56 +0200, >>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:
> and maybe we (R developers) should also consider setting some of > these (e.g. STERM = "Rgui" in that case) -- at least when the > info is available (and somewhat reliable) and even better think > about what else (better) could be done, working with options() > settings as a workaround for this problem. yes > Also (for the original topic), maybe Sweave() could set > options(STERM = 'Sweave') fine with me, but ... > if options(STERM = 'BATCH) is not good > enough. Then, code like Martin Schlather's use > switch(getOption("STERM"), > "BATCH" = { .........}, > .... > ) ... for applications like this we might want to keep the list of possible "terminals" as short as possible (and of course as long as necessary), so we should come up with a list of possible typoes and then try to set the option wherever necessary. .f ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel