[R] customizing edit.data.frame

[Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP)]

Nice -- this is so much better for my aging eyes! Thanks!

In the long run, would be nice if there was an 'official' way of adjusting the font size under X11.

Best,
Wolfgang

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan Krylov [mailto:krylov.r00t using gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, 02 May, 2022 15:31
>To: Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP)
>Cc: R-help using R-project.org
>Subject: Re: [R] customizing edit.data.frame
>
>On Mon, 2 May 2022 11:09:55 +0000
>"Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP)"
><wolfgang.viechtbauer using maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Looking at the source code [*], there is a way to set the font using an
>undocumented option, but the its size is still hard-coded to "12 pt":
>https://github.com/r-devel/r-
>svn/blob/d3e0e30f6da8ab81f24b04690a9a52d81603b189/src/modules/X11/dataentry.c#L19
>24
>
>(Those are bitmap fonts intended for a fixed DPI which is likely
>different from yours, which is why the font size measured in points is
>wrong. I'm not an X11 expert, so I don't know whether this is possible,
>but I've never seen these fonts packaged for more than 100 DPI.)
>
>It's possible to get the desired result by passing a string with fixed
>parameters instead of %s, %s, %d precisely in the right places, but
>that's undefined behaviour and not intended to work this way:
>
>stopifnot(l10n_info()$MBCS)
>options(X11fonts = "-*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
>View(1)
>
>(See the xfontsel command for what XLFD font names should look like and
>X11Fonts() for what R expects to find in that option.)
>
>--
>Best regards,
>Ivan