split screen on startup

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Kleiber <pkleiber at honlab.nmfs.hawaii.edu>
>>>>>     on Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:56:52 -1000 writes:

    Pierre> Is there any way to organize startup so that the *R*
    Pierre> buffer occupies the whole screen rather than sharing
    Pierre> it with the *scratch* buffer?

that doesn't normally happen.
It only happens if you have a setup derived from John Fox'
original hints on setting up ESS+Xemacs for windows.
While these have been very useful to many people (the reason why
I had added a link to John's page on http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/
quite a while ago), the part about misusing *scratch* was
definitely flawed. 
John Fox has since updated his page (and particularly that PDF
document) and eliminated that part about *scratch* AFAIK 
(I'm neither a Windows nor an Xemacs user).

Martin