[R] customizing edit.data.frame

[Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP)]

I would also love to find out how to make changes to the way edit() -- or in my case, View(), but that's presumably using the same resources -- looks under Linux. On my 4K display, the font size is so small as to be barely readable. I would assume this requires some adjustment to .Xresources, but I don't know what keys might be relevant. Searching through the source code didn't give me any clues. See also:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64459416/how-to-change-text-font-and-size-in-r-view

The only mention of Xresources I could find were under ?X11, but this pertains to plots, not edit() and View(). 

I asked about this on R-sig-Debian in 2017:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2017-October/002776.html

I don't think I ever followed this up on R-devel (where maybe this belongs), so happy to move this there if nobody here has any suggestions.

Best,
Wolfgang

>-----Original Message-----
>From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeremie Juste
>Sent: Saturday, 30 April, 2022 11:54
>To: R-help using R-project.org
>Subject: [R] customizing edit.data.frame
>
>Hello,
>
>I was wondering how to customize the grid color of the GUI from the following
>command?
>
>edit(data.frame())
>
>The default grid color is red while on linux it is black. I also found
>out that one can customize the mentioned color using the native R GUI in
>the menu preferences. After saving the preferences a file named Rconsole
>is created.
>
>I would like to know if there is a way to set the grid color directly
>when launching R from the terminal or RStudio or ESS?
>
>Best regards,
>Jeremie