From ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz  Wed May 16 23:22:05 2001
From: ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz (Ross Ihaka)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:22:05 +1200
Subject: [Rd] Strange formatting
References: <cmh5gts4movjvp4o4a91ropt5oarekdpfi@4ax.com> <x2u22lccql.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <3B02FD8D.320B2718@stat.auckland.ac.nz>

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> The spacing is to print all elements in the same field width, and 10
> wouldn't look good in a field of with 2. I don't think that could be
> much different (compare 1:100 and 1:99). The labels would seem to be
> generated to make room for the label with the longest possible width,
> which is slightly botched since that width need not be used by any of
> the labels. Submit a patch?

Believe it or not, this was deliberate for consistency with Splus 3.X.
	Ross

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[Rd] Strange formatting
Ross Ihaka