I tried and confirmed that I could change the font (not just the font size, but the font itself) in the script editor inside Rgui, the default GUI of R in Windows, although I found out how accidentally. I tried both R 4.3.2 and R 4.5.1 on Windows 11,
When I changed the font and clicked "Apply", only the font in the console changed immediately. I also thought the font in the script editor could not be changed. But when I closed the active script window, opened a new one, and typed something, I confirmed that the font in the script was the same font I saw in the console. This also applies to saved R scripts. They will use the font of the console if I change it, when I open them *after* I changed the font. Ideally, the font in all windows should change at the same time when we click "Apply." It is not the case now. Closing and reopening a script is a workaround for now. Regards, Shu Fai On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM John Warner <john.war...@chdifoundation.org> wrote: > Bert and Duncan > I am happy with the simple editor that ships with R except for the issue > with fonts. I simply cannot find s way to change them in 4.2.0. I can > change the font on the console and am sure that in previous versions of R I > could change the fonts in the editor. Any help I could get with this would > be greatly appreciated. Maybe I should raise this with the development > team? And yes, I am using a windows server. > Thanks > John > > > Be > On Sep 18, 2025, at 3:35 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 2025-09-18 2:58 p.m., Bert Gunter wrote: > > By "standard R editor" to you mean the RGUI editor that ships with R? On > my > > Mac platform, it has menu entries in the "Format" menu that allow you to > > choose different fonts and sizes. On Windows, of course, the menus may be > > organized differently, but I would assume there's something similar. If > you > > mean some other editor (e.g. see ?edit), then you need to dig into their > > docs. Again, I assume something similar would be available. > > I don't think it is available in Rgui.exe. I believe that as Tim > describes, there's just one choice of font, you don't get "rich text" > like you do in the Mac R.app editor. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > Cheers, > > Bert > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM John Warner < > john.war...@chdifoundation.org> > > wrote: > > > >> Dear R development Team > >> I am a long time user of R with a distinctly poor vision. I have been > >> using the standard R interface for many years and am comfortable with it > >> except for one minor detail. There seems to be no way to change the font > >> in the standard R editor. I think that this used to be possible and > would > >> like it to be brought back in future releases. At the moment I have > many R > >> command files with font sizes that suit my needs. By copying these and > >> renaming I can continue to work with fonts that I like. It also seems to > >> work if I start a new file in notepad and set the font size there. I can > >> then open this file in the R editor and the font size will be retained. > At > >> the very least I would like to be sure that work arounds like this > remain > >> possible in any new releases. > >> Best > >> John Warner > >> > >> > >> John H. Warner, PhD, MBA > >> Director, Biostatistics > >> CHDI Management / CHDI Foundation > >> 155 Village Boulevard, Suite 200 > >> Princeton, NJ, 08540 > >> (609) 945-9644: office > >> (609) 751-7345: cell > >> (609) 452-2160: fax > >> john.war...@chdifoundation.org<mailto:john.war...@chdifoundation.org> > >> > >> > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help< > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html< > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help< > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html< > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
