Hello. I am new to R and I like it very much... I am learning to use it day-by-day. I have a query which might be a novice level for you. I want to know how to change the background and text colours in the R console. Doing google searches, I found to go to preferences in Edit and to change them. All I could do is to change the colours and then save them as a format and on each usage, I have to load those setup using the saved file. I want to change this once for all. And am crazy about the MATRIX themes, so I would like to have the black as background and green2 as the text file. Please help me in this. And by the way, I use Windows 7, and installed R 2.13.0 version. Regards, Vinay -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-permanently-change-console-colours-in-R-tp4649413.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
How to permanently change console colours in R
3 messages · Peter Ehlers, vinay_ragas
On 2012-11-13 10:49, vinay_ragas wrote:
Hello. I am new to R and I like it very much... I am learning to use it day-by-day. I have a query which might be a novice level for you. I want to know how to change the background and text colours in the R console. Doing google searches, I found to go to preferences in Edit and to change them. All I could do is to change the colours and then save them as a format and on each usage, I have to load those setup using the saved file. I want to change this once for all. And am crazy about the MATRIX themes, so I would like to have the black as background and green2 as the text file. Please help me in this. And by the way, I use Windows 7, and installed R 2.13.0 version. Regards, Vinay
Look for the file Rconsole in the RHome/etc folder. Then look for (near the bottom): ## Colours for console and pager(s) # (see rwxxxx/etc/rgb.txt for the known colours). background = White normaltext = NavyBlue usertext = Red highlight = DarkRed Adjust to suit your tastes and save. For example, my aging eyes prefer background = black normaltext = DarkSeaGreen usertext = yellow highlight = HotPink And you should really consider updating your R version. Peter Ehlers
Hello Peter Ehlers I tried your suggestion. But I couldnt save the settings into Rconsole file while using that. So i temporarily used my another console settings file and tried changing the Rconsole from \etc, but still gives an error. Anyhow will update my R tomorrow and try your suggestion again and let you know. Thanks again. Regards Vinay -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-permanently-change-console-colours-in-R-tp4649413p4649454.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.