Dear Michael, This ended up being more of a mess than I anticipated, but I think that I now have font selection working as advertised on both Windows and Mac OS X. I don't have a convenient Linux system to test on at the moment, but the Rcmdr should behave on Linux as on Mac OS X.
(1) The default.font Rcmdr option now works on both Windows and non-Windows systems, but fonts are specified in Tk form; there's an example in ?Commander. (2) The default.font.size and log.font.size Rcmdr options control respectively the point-size of GUI elements and R input/output/messages. These too work on both Windows and non-Windows systems. On non-Windows systems the default.font.size option will generally be preferable to the default.font option; if both are specified, the latter is used. (3) The scale.factor option still doesn't work reliably on non-Windows systems. On Windows systems, in most cases, specifying scale.factor will be more convenient than specifying default.font.size and log.font.size. (4) The "Tools -> Options" dialog allows the user to set the default font size option on non-Windows systems and the scale factor option on Windows systems. I don't think that you previous option specifications would have done what you want even if the current version of the Rcmdr were working properly. In the new setup, I think you want something like options(Rcmdr = list(default.font.size=15, log.font.size = 15, log.width = 54, log.height = 6, output.height = 18, )) If you really want to scale up the fonts from 15 points by a factor of 1.4, use 21 points. All of these changes are in the development version 1.8-2 of the Rcmdr package on R-Forge. You should be able to get the most up-to-date version (now revision 173) via svn, or you can wait until R-Forge builds the source package, which is usually done daily (check the revision number at https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=255). Please let me know whether this works properly for you now. I'm copying this response to Rich Heiberger, since the changes may affect him. Best, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Schmidt > Sent: December-28-11 2:12 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] R Commander options > > Folks, > Thanks for the help and I've used it as follows. I've created a > .Rprofile file in my home directory and placed the following code in > it: > > options(Rcmdr = list(default.font="*helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-15*", > log.font.size = 15, > log.width = 54, > log.height = 6, > output.height = 18, > scale.factor = 1.4)) > > When I start Rcmdr with the desktop launcher, there are no error > messages and the log font settings are correct. However, I was of the > impression that the default.font setting would affect the GUI widgets, > and that isn't happening. Am I mistaken? > > Again, thanks to all! > Michael Schmidt > > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R- > Commander-options-tp4238183p4240767.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.