Changing fonts in the standard R editor

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.duncan at 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.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


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