On 13/01/2015 2:52 AM, Ingrid Charvet wrote: > Thanks for your reply Sarah. > I am using R on Windows 7 professional, 64-bit-OS (on my local machine). > > setOutputColors doesn’t work in Windows however I came across this post > mentioning the package "colorout", which seems however not to be available > from CRAN: > http://www.r-bloggers.com/automatically-coloring-your-r-output-in-the-terminal-using-colorout/ > > It seems to have also been removed from the website indicated in the blog > post.
In the Windows GUI (Rgui.exe), the colours are set in a text file that is loaded at startup, or when you call the loadRconsole() function. You can also save or load it from the menu, using the Edit | GUI preferences... dialog. Duncan Murdoch > > PS. Neither setOutputColors, nor require(colorout) work in the interactive > session... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 12 January 2015 19:12 > To: Ingrid Charvet > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] R console colours (R profile) > > I think you're setting the colors incorrectly. My understanding from reading > the package docs is that you use setOutputColors to do so, and not the > options() approach. There are no options for background etc that I'm aware > of. Does that work if you run it in an interactive session instead? > > See > ?setOutputColors > for help. > > Also, you don't specify your OS and such: this only works in unix terminals. > > Sarah > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Ingrid Charvet <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello R users, >> >> I would like to set defaults text and background colours of my R >> console using R profile (to load automatically each time I start a new >> session) >> >> So far my R profile is set up like this: >> >> if(interactive()) { >> suppressWarnings(require(colorout,quietly=T)) >> message("successfully loaded .Rprofile at ", date(), "\n") } >> >> options(background='black') >> options(usertext='turquoise1') >> options(normaltext='maroon1') >> >> Unfortunately it doesn't work - when I open an R console I still get the >> white background, red usertext and blue normaltext. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
