[R] Changing fonts in the standard R editor

[John Warner]

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 using 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
>
>
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> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM John Warner <John.Warner using chdifoundation.org>
> wrote:
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>> 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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