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You can change several global settings for OpenRepGrid which will influence the way grids are displyed. You can promt the available settings by calling settings().

settings()
# ------------------------
# Settings for OpenRepGrid
# ------------------------
# 
# Printing a grid to the console
#   show.scale : TRUE (show grid scale info?)
#   show.meta  : TRUE (show grid meta data?)
#   show.trim  : 30 (number of chars to trim strings to)
#   show.cut   : 20 (max no of chars on the sides of a grid)
#   c.no       : TRUE (print construct id?)
#   e.no       : TRUE (print element id?)

By default information about the scale and grid meta data is displayed.

fbb2003
# 
# META DATA:
# Number of constructs:  9 
# Number of elements:  8 
# 
# SCALE INFO:
# The grid is rated on a scale from 1 (left pole) to 7 (right pole)
# 
# RATINGS:
#        an ethical person - 4 5 - my mother              
#           an old flame - 3 | | 6 - a rejected teacher   
#            my father - 2 | | | | 7 - as I would love to 
#               self - 1 | | | | | | 8 - a pitied person  
#                      | | | | | | | |                    
#         clever (1)   2 1 6 3 5 7 1 5   (1) not bright   
#   disorganized (2)   6 6 4 5 2 2 5 2   (2) organized    
#        listens (3)   3 1 6 3 3 7 1 4   (3) doesn't hear 
#  no clear view (4)   5 6 3 3 3 5 7 3   (4) clear view of
# understands me (5)   3 2 6 2 2 6 2 5   (5) no understand
#      ambitious (6)   6 3 5 4 7 3 3 5   (6) no ambition  
#      respected (7)   2 2 4 2 5 6 1 4   (7) not respected
#        distant (8)   3 3 7 3 5 1 6 5   (8) warm         
# her aggressive (9)   1 3 3 3 5 2 5 7   (9) not aggressiv

To change the settings enter the new parameters as name=value pairs. To turn off the display of the scale and meta information type in

settings(show.scale=FALSE, show.meta=FALSE)

Now all grids are displayed without this information:

fbb2003
# 
# RATINGS:
#        an ethical person - 4 5 - my mother              
#           an old flame - 3 | | 6 - a rejected teacher   
#            my father - 2 | | | | 7 - as I would love to 
#               self - 1 | | | | | | 8 - a pitied person  
#                      | | | | | | | |                    
#         clever (1)   2 1 6 3 5 7 1 5   (1) not bright   
#   disorganized (2)   6 6 4 5 2 2 5 2   (2) organized    
#        listens (3)   3 1 6 3 3 7 1 4   (3) doesn't hear 
#  no clear view (4)   5 6 3 3 3 5 7 3   (4) clear view of
# understands me (5)   3 2 6 2 2 6 2 5   (5) no understand
#      ambitious (6)   6 3 5 4 7 3 3 5   (6) no ambition  
#      respected (7)   2 2 4 2 5 6 1 4   (7) not respected
#        distant (8)   3 3 7 3 5 1 6 5   (8) warm         
# her aggressive (9)   1 3 3 3 5 2 5 7   (9) not aggressiv

Other settings that can be modified are maximal length of the construct that is displayed. Changing show.cutto 40 will prevent that the names of the constructs are cut off.

settings(show.cut=40)
fbb2003
# 
# RATINGS:
#           an ethical person - 4 5 - my mother                   
#              an old flame - 3 | | 6 - a rejected teacher        
#               my father - 2 | | | | 7 - as I would love to be   
#                  self - 1 | | | | | | 8 - a pitied person       
#                         | | | | | | | |                         
#            clever (1)   2 1 6 3 5 7 1 5   (1) not bright        
#      disorganized (2)   6 6 4 5 2 2 5 2   (2) organized         
#           listens (3)   3 1 6 3 3 7 1 4   (3) doesn't hear      
#     no clear view (4)   5 6 3 3 3 5 7 3   (4) clear view of life
#    understands me (5)   3 2 6 2 2 6 2 5   (5) no understanding  
#         ambitious (6)   6 3 5 4 7 3 3 5   (6) no ambition       
#         respected (7)   2 2 4 2 5 6 1 4   (7) not respected     
#           distant (8)   3 3 7 3 5 1 6 5   (8) warm              
# rather aggressive (9)   1 3 3 3 5 2 5 7   (9) not aggressive    

In order to not print the number of constructs and elements you can turn off this options by

settings(c.no=FALSE, e.no=FALSE)
fbb2003
# 
# RATINGS:
#           an ethical person my mother                   
#              an old flame | | a rejected teacher        
#               my father | | | | as I would love to be   
#                  self | | | | | | a pitied person       
#                     | | | | | | | |                     
#            clever   2 1 6 3 5 7 1 5   not bright        
#      disorganized   6 6 4 5 2 2 5 2   organized         
#           listens   3 1 6 3 3 7 1 4   doesn't hear      
#     no clear view   5 6 3 3 3 5 7 3   clear view of life
#    understands me   3 2 6 2 2 6 2 5   no understanding  
#         ambitious   6 3 5 4 7 3 3 5   no ambition       
#         respected   2 2 4 2 5 6 1 4   not respected     
#           distant   3 3 7 3 5 1 6 5   warm              
# rather aggressive   1 3 3 3 5 2 5 7   not aggressive