[R] fonts in mosaic

Michael Friendly friendly at yorku.ca
Thu Mar 31 14:44:06 CEST 2011


If you are doing multiple plots like this, there is no way I know of
to specify the fonts for labeling *once* for all such plots.  However,
you can do something like this to save typing and keep things consistent:

my.largs <- list(
     gp_labels = gpar(fontsize = 12, fontfamily = "calibri"),
     gp_varnames = gpar(fontsize = 16, fontfamily = "calibri"))

mosaic(UCBAdmissions, labeling_args=my.largs)
mosaic(UCBAdmissions, labeling_args=my.largs, shade=TRUE)

etc.


On 3/30/2011 2:42 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> Try this:
>
> windowsFonts(calibri = windowsFont("Calibri"))
>
> mosaic(UCBAdmissions, labeling_args = list(
>    gp_labels = gpar(fontsize = 12, fontfamily = "calibri"),
>    gp_varnames = gpar(fontsize = 16, fontfamily = "calibri")
> ))
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Erich Neuwirth
> <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at>  wrote:
>> Achim
>> I simply want to replace the font R uses on mosaic (whatever it is)
>> by a font of my choice (say Calibri or Arial)
>> because I need to embed the R charts in a PowerPoint
>> presentation and want the fonts to match.
>> And I want the most simple way of accomplishing this.
>> I worked my way through the strucplot vignette,
>> but I could not extract enough information there.
>> Is there some information about the proper font names
>> to use in R?
>>
>>
>>> Personally, I simply change the size of the device I'm plotting on. When
>>> I plot on a large device, the fonts will be relatively smaller, and vice
>>>> versa. This is what I do when including graphics in PDF files (papers,
>>>> slides, reports, etc.).
>>>>
>>>> For fine control, you can set the arguments of the labeling function
>>>> employed. ?strucplot shows that the default is ?labeling_border which
>>>> has several arguments. For example you can set the graphical parameters
>>>> of the labels (gp_labels) or the graphical parameters of the variable
>>>> names (gp_varnames). Both arguments take ?gpar lists ("grid" graphical
>>>> parameters). For example you may do
>>>>
>>
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>
>
>


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