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Change font size in Windows

5 messages · Greg Snow, Uwe Ligges, John Kane

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John Kane
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My day for dumb questions. How do I increase the type size in the Rgui console in Windows? (R-2.13.0, Windows 7)

It looked to me that I just needed to change the font spec in Rconsole but that does not seem to be working.

The R FAQ for Windows has a reference in Q3.4 to changing fonts, (Q5.2), but I don't see anything relevant there. 

Rconsole originally was:
font = TT Courier New
points = 10
style = normal # Style can be normal, bold, italic

I changed this to points=14 and then in desperation to points=18 with no effect.

I have both restarted R and done a complete reboot to no avail.  What am I missing?

Any advice would be most gratefully received
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R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils     methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_2.2      Hmisc_3.8-3     survival_2.36-9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.13.3  grid_2.13.0     lattice_0.19-26 svMisc_0.9-61   tools_2.13.0
Greg Snow
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One simple way:

Run R (the gui version)
Click on the Edit menu
Click on the GUI Preferences item.

Select the font, size, style, colors, etc. that you want. If you click on Save then these become the new default.  If you click on Apply, but don't save then they will last that session but not be the new defaults.
Uwe Ligges
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On 12.05.2011 18:25, John Kane wrote:
You probably edited *one* of at least two Rconsole files. The one in 
your home directory (probably C:/Users/Username/Documents/Rconsole) 
takes precedence.

Uwe Ligges
John Kane
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Definitely.  I edited the one in the program files.  

I think i saw a ref to the home file but it did not sink in.

Thanks
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I looked at that yesterday and totally missed the font settings! I'm blaming the new glasses.  

Thank you. I'll probably do the Rconsole change but I's nice to know about this one if I'm using R on another machine.  That way I cannot mess up someone else's setup./

        
--- On Thu, 5/12/11, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org> wrote: