[R] Change font size in Windows

[Greg Snow]

One simple way:

Run R (the gui version)
Click on the Edit menu
Click on the GUI Preferences item.

Select the font, size, style, colors, etc. that you want. If you click on Save then these become the new default.  If you click on Apply, but don't save then they will last that session but not be the new defaults.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of John Kane
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 10:25 AM
> To: R R-help
> Subject: [R] Change font size in Windows
> 
> My day for dumb questions. How do I increase the type size in the Rgui
> console in Windows? (R-2.13.0, Windows 7)
> 
> It looked to me that I just needed to change the font spec in Rconsole
> but that does not seem to be working.
> 
> The R FAQ for Windows has a reference in Q3.4 to changing fonts,
> (Q5.2), but I don't see anything relevant there.
> 
> Rconsole originally was:
> font = TT Courier New
> points = 10
> style = normal # Style can be normal, bold, italic
> 
> I changed this to points=14 and then in desperation to points=18 with
> no effect.
> 
> I have both restarted R and done a complete reboot to no avail.  What
> am I missing?
> 
> Any advice would be most gratefully received
> =======================================================
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils
> methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_2.2      Hmisc_3.8-3
> survival_2.36-9
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.13.3  grid_2.13.0     lattice_0.19-26 svMisc_0.9-61
> tools_2.13.0
> 
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