Bert and Duncan I am happy with the simple editor that ships with R except for the issue with fonts. I simply cannot find s way to change them in 4.2.0. I can change the font on the console and am sure that in previous versions of R I could change the fonts in the editor. Any help I could get with this would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I should raise this with the development team? And yes, I am using a windows server. Thanks John
Be On Sep 18, 2025, at 3:35 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: On 2025-09-18 2:58 p.m., Bert Gunter wrote: > By "standard R editor" to you mean the RGUI editor that ships with R? On my > Mac platform, it has menu entries in the "Format" menu that allow you to > choose different fonts and sizes. On Windows, of course, the menus may be > organized differently, but I would assume there's something similar. If you > mean some other editor (e.g. see ?edit), then you need to dig into their > docs. Again, I assume something similar would be available. I don't think it is available in Rgui.exe. I believe that as Tim describes, there's just one choice of font, you don't get "rich text" like you do in the Mac R.app editor. Duncan Murdoch > > Cheers, > Bert > > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM John Warner <john.war...@chdifoundation.org> > wrote: > >> Dear R development Team >> I am a long time user of R with a distinctly poor vision. I have been >> using the standard R interface for many years and am comfortable with it >> except for one minor detail. There seems to be no way to change the font >> in the standard R editor. I think that this used to be possible and would >> like it to be brought back in future releases. At the moment I have many R >> command files with font sizes that suit my needs. By copying these and >> renaming I can continue to work with fonts that I like. It also seems to >> work if I start a new file in notepad and set the font size there. I can >> then open this file in the R editor and the font size will be retained. At >> the very least I would like to be sure that work arounds like this remain >> possible in any new releases. >> Best >> John Warner >> >> >> John H. Warner, PhD, MBA >> Director, Biostatistics >> CHDI Management / CHDI Foundation >> 155 Village Boulevard, Suite 200 >> Princeton, NJ, 08540 >> (609) 945-9644: office >> (609) 751-7345: cell >> (609) 452-2160: fax >> john.war...@chdifoundation.org<mailto:john.war...@chdifoundation.org> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
