[R] Is there some way to customize colours for the View output?

[Duncan Murdoch]

If you are using X11, then the paragraph on X resources is relevant. 
Create a file named .Xresources in your home directory, and put a line like

R_dataentry.background: green

in it.  On my Mac, this has to be in place before Xquartz is started. 
There is probably a similar restriction on other platforms.

Colour names (used for foreground and background) can be words or hex 
colors like #ffffff .  I don't know the format for "geometry", but I'd 
guess it's like the -geometry argument to X11 apps, e.g. 1000x1000+0+0.

If you are on Windows, none of this is relevant.

Duncan Murdoch

On 07/05/2024 5:51 a.m., Iago Giné Vázquez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As the email subject tells, I write to ask if there is the chance to customize the colours (and in particular the background) of the `View` output window.
> 
> 
> In the View help, it is told that:
> 
>      On Windows, the initial size of the data viewer window is taken from the default dimensions of a pager (see Rconsole), but adjusted downwards to show a whole number of rows and columns.
> 
> So if it works for the sizes, it could work for the colours. But after modifying
> 
> ## Colours for console and pager(s)
> # (see rwxxxx/etc/rgb.txt for the known colours).
> background = gray9
> normaltext = yellow
> usertext = YellowGreen
> highlight = golderod
> 
> I did not have success.
> 
> On the other hand, in the data.entry it is told that
> 
>      The data entry window responds to X resources of class R_dataentry. Resources foreground, background and geometry are utilized.
> 
> But I do not know if this is related and how to modify those resources.
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 
> If this is not possible, is there any chance of making a feature request of this to R-devel? (I mean, I could write to R-devel list, but do you think there would be any interest in developing this?)
> 
> Thanks!
> Best regards,
> 
> Iago
> 
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