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preferences tabs don't match help

2 messages · Ivan Baxter, Simon Urbanek

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Ivan Baxter
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Okay- this is probably something really simple that I am missing, but I 
haven't managed to find an answer poking around the archives....

I am trying to set the default font  and font size on R 2.5.1 for mac 
and the preference pane seems to be missing several functionalities.

When I have R open and go to applications menu -> preferences  the help 
document says that I should see 4 tabs:

Text Windows tab
Quartz device tab
Packages tab
Misc tab

instead I see 5 icons:
General: Startup
Source Editor: Editor and Syntax Colors
Views:  Console Colors  and Quartz

the text windows tab is nowhere to be seen.

I feel like I must be missing something painfully obvious, but I can't 
figure out what it is.

any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Ivan

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
i386-apple-darwin8.9.1

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  
"methods"   "base"
Simon Urbanek
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On Aug 11, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Ivan Baxter wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
The docs are unfortunately out of sync,. The text size can be set  
either in the toolbar (but you have to enable it in 'customize  
toolbar' first) or by <Cmd><+>/<-> (or the menu). The font size  
management was somewhat messed up, but that should be fixed in the  
nightly build of the GUI (see http://r.research.att.com/ ). The font  
type cannot be changed atm (at least not persistently).

Cheers,
Simon