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 John H. Warner, PhD, MBA Director, Biostatistics CHDI Management / CHDI Foundation 155 Village Boulevard, Suite 200 Princeton, NJ, 08540 (609) 945-9644: office (609) 751-7345: cell (609) 452-2160: fax john.warner at CHDIfoundation.org<mailto:john.warner at CHDIfoundation.org> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 2025-09-18 12:19 p.m., John Warner 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.John: You mention notepad, so I assume you're working on Windows. But there are several possible editors you could be using there. Are you running Rgui.exe and using the built in editor? Or RStudio? Or something else? I'm not on Windows, so I can't recommend the best editor to use, but there are multiple choices possible. Duncan Murdoch
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. 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 > > > John H. Warner, PhD, MBA > Director, Biostatistics > CHDI Management / CHDI Foundation > 155 Village Boulevard, Suite 200 > Princeton, NJ, 08540 > (609) 945-9644: office > (609) 751-7345: cell > (609) 452-2160: fax > john.warner at CHDIfoundation.org<mailto:john.warner at CHDIfoundation.org> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]