On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:58:01 -0400, "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw@merck.com> wrote :
From: andrew_zachary@yahoo.com [mailto:andrew_zachary@yahoo.com]
The R-console window in the Windows GUI has a nice feature that lets you save your preferences for font sizes and background and foreground colors. Unhappily, there is no way to load these preferences back in when starting a new session.
Have you not noticed the "Save" button?
To expand on that: by default, Save puts the preferences in a file called Rconsole in the current directory; on startup, R looks for Rconsole in the R_USER directory (which defaults to the current directory), and if it doesn't find one there, in the R_HOME/etc directory. However, there's a bug in the current beta: near the end it writes out the lines ## Initial position of the graphics window ## (pixels, <0 values from opposite edge) xgraphics = ygraphics = but it can't read those because of the missing values. I'll try to get that fixed for 1.8.0.
Also, the scroll window for selecting colors is very small and awkward. If I want to select a color which is towards the top or the bottom of the list, I have to scrolls (slowly) through all the entries to get to it. Would make more sense to have a color window with user-selectable colors.
That would make sense, but it's not likely to happen (and certainly won't for 1.8.0): we've more or less stopped adding features to the current Rgui. If I (or someone else) ever gets time, I intend to replace it with an all new one. Duncan Murdoch