You have the sources: look at src/gnuwin32/devga.c, line 2217.
You can change that as you please and recompile R.
*However* that is the base font size, and R uses graphics parameter cex to
scale the text thereafter. There are limits of [2, 100] points for the
scaled font size.
The default is 12 point, on a 7" square window. 24 point might be
appropriate to a 14" or 1000 pixel png/jpeg. That's pretty high
resolution, and if that is not enough, I would question why you are using
a bitmap format anyway, and if you absolutely needed to I would suggest
you used some other tools to rasterize (as R's bitmap() function does).
On Tue, 6 May 2003, Kosenkov Kirill Nikolaevich wrote:
> When I am trying to produce plot with text with pointsize 30 or
> greater R sets up a default pointsize of 12 on plot.
> I need to set up a large pointsize to make large jpeg or
> png files (with good resolution).
> I can write text on plot with pointsizes 18,20,22, but i cant
> write text with pointsizes 25,26 and greater and i can not
> understand - why? Is there are any restrictions in R? Or what?
> I am using R 1.7.0 on Win2k
Perhaps you should say that first, *and* that you are using a png() device
(if you are).
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