[R] changing plot font for Times new roman

Roland Rau roland.rproject at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 21:34:01 CEST 2008


Hi,

milton ruser wrote:
> we choose an family of fonts. I tryed par(family="times")
> without success.
> 

what about this:
pdf("plot1Times.pdf", family="Times")
plot(1,1)
dev.off()
pdf("plot1NotTimes.pdf")
plot(1,1)
dev.off()


Maybe you check also the help for
?postscriptFonts

I hope this helps you a bit further.

Best,
Roland






> Surfing on R archieve I got an suggestion of
> use par(font.lab=6), but when I go to the
> par(font.lab) help the highest value there is 5.
> How can I have sure that font.lab=6 is the Times
> New Roman?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> miltinho astronauta
> brazil
> ---
> 
> op<-par()
> 
> x11(800,500)
> par(mfrow=c(1,2))
> 
> x<-plot(runif(100),rnorm(100) , main="standard font")
> 
> par(font.lab=6)
> par(font.axis=6)
> 
> x<-plot(runif(100),rnorm(100) , main="font=6")
> par<-op
> 
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