New user and GUI text size

gakovacs · February 2, 2018, 3:25pm

Hi All. I have just downloaded R Studio. The GUI text is very small. I'm sure this is not a new thing....any thoughts on making that text larger?

jim89 · February 2, 2018, 3:54pm

You can zoom in/out with the View menu, and/or change the text size in Tools > Global Options.

jrlewi · February 2, 2018, 4:17pm

Welcome to RStudio! Your issue could also be related to screen resolution - does this help?:

Dramatic screen resolution issue - see screen snip RStudio IDE

Hi, I have recently obtained a nice new laptop with a 4k screen. Rstudio is one of my core apps. Sadly when I run Rstudio, it appears with a font which is so tiny no one could read it (see uploaded image of screen dump). I have tried to adjust some of the global settings, screen resolutions, but with no real improvements. Does anybody know how I can make this scale normally? I have some other apps with a display issue, but none as severe as with Rstudio. Many thanks in advance for any ideas. Cheers, rwillia2001. Here are my laptop specs: Intel® Xeon® E3-1535M v6 Processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.20GHz 64GB RAM Windows 10 Pro for Workstation (available for Xeon processors) 15.6" 4K (3840 x…