Changing fonts in the standard R editor
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.Warner at 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
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Princeton, NJ, 08540
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