On 2025-09-18 2:58 p.m., Bert Gunter wrote:> 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.I don't think it is available in Rgui.exe. I believe that as Tim describes, there's just one choice of font, you don't get "rich text" like you do in the Mac R.app editor. Duncan Murdoch> > 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]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
On 9/18/25 15:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote:> On 2025-09-18 2:58 p.m., Bert Gunter wrote: >> 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. > > I don't think it is available in Rgui.exe.? I believe that as Tim > describes, there's just one choice of font, you don't get "rich text" > like you do in the Mac R.app editor.But did font size *used* to be adjustable in Rgui.exe? "I think that this used to be possible" I don't know exactly where to look for changes, I was looking at history of stuff in R/src/gnuwin32 (especially editor.h, editor.c) but didn't get very far. Maybe things also changed in the upstream Windows libraries, i.e. Rtools ? MINGW-w64, etc. ??> Duncan Murdoch > >> >> 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]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.-- Dr. Benjamin Bolker Professor, Mathematics & Statistics and Biology, McMaster University Associate chair (graduate), Mathematics & Statistics Director, School of Computational Science and Engineering * E-mail is sent at my convenience; I don't expect replies outside of working hours.
Bert and Duncan I am happy with the simple editor that ships with R except for the issue with fonts. I simply cannot find s way to change them in 4.2.0. I can change the font on the console and am sure that in previous versions of R I could change the fonts in the editor. Any help I could get with this would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I should raise this with the development team? And yes, I am using a windows server. Thanks John Be On Sep 18, 2025, at 3:35?PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: ? On 2025-09-18 2:58 p.m., Bert Gunter wrote:> 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.I don't think it is available in Rgui.exe. I believe that as Tim describes, there's just one choice of font, you don't get "rich text" like you do in the Mac R.app editor. Duncan Murdoch> > 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<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[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<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.[[alternative HTML version deleted]]