[R] Change font size in Windows

[Uwe Ligges]

On 12.05.2011 18:25, John Kane wrote:
> My day for dumb questions. How do I increase the type size in the Rgui console in Windows? (R-2.13.0, Windows 7)
>
> It looked to me that I just needed to change the font spec in Rconsole but that does not seem to be working.
>
> The R FAQ for Windows has a reference in Q3.4 to changing fonts, (Q5.2), but I don't see anything relevant there.
>
> Rconsole originally was:
> font = TT Courier New
> points = 10
> style = normal # Style can be normal, bold, italic
>
> I changed this to points=14 and then in desperation to points=18 with no effect.
>
> I have both restarted R and done a complete reboot to no avail.  What am I missing?

You probably edited *one* of at least two Rconsole files. The one in 
your home directory (probably C:/Users/Username/Documents/Rconsole) 
takes precedence.

Uwe Ligges


>
> Any advice would be most gratefully received
> =======================================================
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils     methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_2.2      Hmisc_3.8-3     survival_2.36-9
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.13.3  grid_2.13.0     lattice_0.19-26 svMisc_0.9-61   tools_2.13.0
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.