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jalvesaq / colorout

Colorize R output in terminal emulators
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RStudio #4

Closed slowkow closed 9 years ago

slowkow commented 9 years ago

Is it possible to use output colored by colorout in the RStudio terminal? Would this require changes in the RStudio app?

jalvesaq commented 9 years ago

The colorizing of output in RStudio is done by Qt function. I am not sure if a package can replace the function, but I guess that it is not possible. It would be necessary to change RStudio code. Someone has already requested this, but it seems that RStudio team is not convinced of its usefulness yet:

https://support.rstudio.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200658723-Colored-text-output-in-the-RStudio-console

jalvesaq commented 9 years ago

Note: the colorout package is intended to colorize R output in terminal emulators that accept ANSI escape codes. It would not be difficult to adapt the code of colorout (written in C) to RStudio (written in C++), but this this would be another package.

jalvesaq commented 6 years ago

RStudio now accepts ANSI colors, and I am going to commit a change to not disable the colorizing of R output when within RStudio.