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The file ‘Rconsole’ configures the R GUI console in this
Windows port. The file ‘Rdevga’ configures the graphics devices
windows, win.graph, win.metafile and win.print.
There are system copies of these files in ‘R\_HOME\etc’. Users
can have personal copies of the files: these are looked for in the
location given by the environment variable R_USER. The system
files are read only if a corresponding personal file is not found.
If the environment variable R_USER is not set, the R system
sets it to HOME if that is set (stripping any trailing
slash), otherwise to HOMEDIR:HOMEPATH if HOMEDIR is set
otherwise to the working directory.
Each of the files contains details in its comments of how to set the values.
At the time of writing ‘Rdevga’ configured the mapping of font
numbers to fonts, and ‘Rconsole’ configured the appearance
(single or multiple document interface, toolbar, statusbar on MDI),
size, font and colours of the GUI console, and whether resizing the
console sets options("width").
The file ‘Rconsole’ also configures the internal pager. This shares the font and colours of the console, but can be sized separately.
The GUI preferences item on the Edit menu brings up an
form which can be used to edit the console settings, and to save them
to a file.
Guido Masarotto
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