[R] Change font size in Windows

[John Kane]

I looked at that yesterday and totally missed the font settings! I'm blaming the new glasses.  

Thank you. I'll probably do the Rconsole change but I's nice to know about this one if I'm using R on another machine.  That way I cannot mess up someone else's setup./

--- On Thu, 5/12/11, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org> wrote:

> From: Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org>
> Subject: RE: [R] Change font size in Windows
> To: "John Kane" <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>, "R R-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Received: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 1:07 PM
> 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
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> 
> 
> > -----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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