[R] Changing fonts in the standard R editor

[Duncan Murdoch]

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 using 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
>>
>>
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