R help - Jan 2005 - font size in console

I'm using R in a statistics class, and when I project the console, the 
font is smaller than ideal.  I've checked the faq's, the manual, and the
  help system as best I can, and I don't see how to change the font size.

Can it be changed from within a session, or will I have to ask the folks 
who installed the program on the server I use in classes to set it 
(assuming that can be done)?

Thanks for any help.

David Parkhurst

It makes a very real difference which platform you're on.  Please don't
forget to mention that.

If you're using Rgui on Windows, use the menu Edit / GUI preferences... to
set the font.  You'll have to save the setting, and then re-start R for it
to take effect.

If running ESS under (X?)Emacs, I believe you can change the font
dynamically, but I don't remember how that's done...

Andy
> From: David Parkhurst
> 
> I'm using R in a statistics class, and when I project the 
> console, the 
> font is smaller than ideal.  I've checked the faq's, the 
> manual, and the 
>   help system as best I can, and I don't see how to change 
> the font size.
> 
> Can it be changed from within a session, or will I have to 
> ask the folks 
> who installed the program on the server I use in classes to set it 
> (assuming that can be done)?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> David Parkhurst
> 
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I use windows, so I can't state that the same is true of other operating
systems.

There is a file which is in the etc folder of the R directory called Rconsole. 

part of mine looks like

## Font.
# Please use only fixed width font.
# If font=FixedFont the system fixed font is used; in this case
# points and style are ignored. If font begins with "TT ", only
# True Type fonts are searched for.
font = TT Courier New
points = 10
style = normal # Style can be normal, bold, italic


Just change it.

In the windows GUI, under Edit you can make these changes and save the resulting
Rconsole file. There may be some difficulties if you do not have write access to
this directory.

There are a number of places where Rconsole can live depending upon whether or
not you wish to have a local or global effect. ?Rconsole gives you more
information

Tom 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Parkhurst [mailto:parkhurs at ariel.ucs.indiana.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2005 8:55 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] font size in console
> 
> 
> I'm using R in a statistics class, and when I project the 
> console, the 
> font is smaller than ideal.  I've checked the faq's, the 
> manual, and the 
>   help system as best I can, and I don't see how to change 
> the font size.
> 
> Can it be changed from within a session, or will I have to 
> ask the folks 
> who installed the program on the server I use in classes to set it 
> (assuming that can be done)?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> David Parkhurst
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide! 
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>