Option tibble.width not working

[EdwardJRoss]

The tibble.width option doesn't seem to affect the width of the tibble being printed.

As a user I set tibble.width to Inf to view very long data frames (scrolling horizontally in my window).
A partial workaround is to set width to 10000, but this has other implications.

Example:

options(tibble.width=Inf, width=40)
tibble::as_tibble(iris)
#># A tibble: 150 x 5
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width
#>          <dbl>       <dbl>
#> 1         5.10        3.50
#> 2         4.90        3.00
#> 3         4.70        3.20
#> 4         4.60        3.10
#> 5         5.00        3.60
#> 6         5.40        3.90
#> 7         4.60        3.40
#> 8         5.00        3.40
#> 9         4.40        2.90
#>10         4.90        3.10
#># ... with 140 more rows, and 3 more
#>#   variables: Petal.Length <dbl>,
#>#   Petal.Width <dbl>, Species <fct>

Expected output:
As per the documentation all columns should be printed

options(tibble.width = Inf) will always print all columns, regardless of the width of the screen.

This is the behaviour in tibble 1.3.4

options(tibble.width=Inf, width=40)
tibble::as_tibble(iris)
#># A tibble: 150 x 5
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#>          <dbl>       <dbl>        <dbl>       <dbl>  <fctr>
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
#> 7          4.6         3.4          1.4         0.3  setosa
#> 8          5.0         3.4          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 9          4.4         2.9          1.4         0.2  setosa
#>10          4.9         3.1          1.5         0.1  setosa
#># ... with 140 more rows

[krlmlr]

Thanks for raising this. Note that tibble.width = Inf will still output all columns but use at most getOption("width") characters, using a second, third, ... tier of columns if necessary.

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