R help - Nov 2025 - Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to Word using Times New Roman

Colleagues

I am writing an article using Microsoft Word for a journal that requires
Times New Roman for all text (including tables and statistical outputs).
However, copying console output from RStudio (e.g., summary(lm())) into Word
retains the RStudio monospace font, and Word does not automatically convert
it to Times New Roman. Manually restyling each pasted block is
time-consuming and error-prone.

s there a recommended workflow for preserving proper alignment while
achieving Times New Roman text formatting when transferring statistical
results from RStudio into Word?

System:
Windows 11
R 4.5.1
RStudio 2024.12.0+

Thanks for any guidance or best practices.

Best regards,
Thomas Subia

Dear Thomas,

Just paste without formatting. Then the pasted text will be in the active font
of the Word document.

Best,
Wolfgang
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> Subject: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to
Word
> using Times New Roman
>
> Colleagues
>
> I am writing an article using Microsoft Word for a journal that requires
> Times New Roman for all text (including tables and statistical outputs).
> However, copying console output from RStudio (e.g., summary(lm())) into
Word
> retains the RStudio monospace font, and Word does not automatically convert
> it to Times New Roman. Manually restyling each pasted block is
> time-consuming and error-prone.
>
> s there a recommended workflow for preserving proper alignment while
> achieving Times New Roman text formatting when transferring statistical
> results from RStudio into Word?
>
> System:
> Windows 11
> R 4.5.1
> RStudio 2024.12.0+
>
> Thanks for any guidance or best practices.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Subia

This question has already been answered, but I thought I would share 
something related to it that others may find useful. What if you want 
the font used in figures and graphs to be Times New Roman? I don't know 
if this is considered best ppractice, but I discovered you can get all 
the text on figures and plots in R's standard graphics system to be 
Times New Roman by doing the following. This only works on Windows.


Use WindowsFonts()

to get a list of the windows fonts available to R on the windows system. 
The serif font is likely to be Times New Roman. Take a note of its name 
in the output from windowsFonts().

For example, on my system it is "TT Times New Roman".

Then include the following code before performing any plotting.


windowsFonts(tnr=windowsFont("TT Times New Roman"))


This sets up tnr as a font family name that refers to Times New Roman. 
You don't have to use tnr; that's just the name I chose.

Then, before plotting, set graphics parameter family="tnr". This can 
either be done with par or in the function call that opens the graphics 
device. For example,


png("figure.png", width=15.5, height=17.5, units="cm",
res=72)
par(family="tnr")

...

dev.off()


or


 ?png("figure.png", width=15.5, height=17.5, units="cm",
res=72,
family="tnr")
...

dev.off()


Hth,

Andrew.


On 21/11/2025 3:51, tgs77m--- via R-help wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> I am writing an article using Microsoft Word for a journal that requires
> Times New Roman for all text (including tables and statistical outputs).
> However, copying console output from RStudio (e.g., summary(lm())) into
Word
> retains the RStudio monospace font, and Word does not automatically convert
> it to Times New Roman. Manually restyling each pasted block is
> time-consuming and error-prone.
>
> s there a recommended workflow for preserving proper alignment while
> achieving Times New Roman text formatting when transferring statistical
> results from RStudio into Word?
>
> System:
> Windows 11
> R 4.5.1
> RStudio 2024.12.0+
>
> Thanks for any guidance or best practices.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Subia
>
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