R devel - Jan 2008 - R CMD check and postscript fonts

Hello,
I came across this by using R cmd check - otherwise I would probably not have
noticed.
One of my functions does something like this:
# postscript()
# plot(1, xlim = c(0, 10), ylim = c(0, 4), type = "n", ann = FALSE,
axes = FALSE)
# text(1:10, 2, c("a","b"), cex = seqcex,
family="mono",font=2)

Which results in the error:
Error in text.default(1:10, 2, c("a", "b"), cex = seqcex,
family = "mono",  :
  family 'mono' not included in PostScript device

'mono' is perfectly fine for my x11 device and 
# postscriptFonts()$mono

gives me:
$family
[1] "Courier"

$metrics
[1] "Courier.afm"             "Courier-Bold.afm"       
[3] "Courier-Oblique.afm"     "Courier-BoldOblique.afm"
[5] "Symbol.afm"             

$encoding
[1] "default"

attr(,"class")
[1] "Type1Font"

That looks all right to me no? How to remedy this?

Thanks for your patience, Joh

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
> I came across this by using R cmd check - otherwise I would probably not
have
> noticed.
> One of my functions does something like this:
> # postscript()
> # plot(1, xlim = c(0, 10), ylim = c(0, 4), type = "n", ann =
FALSE, axes = FALSE)
> # text(1:10, 2, c("a","b"), cex = seqcex,
family="mono",font=2)
>
> Which results in the error:
> Error in text.default(1:10, 2, c("a", "b"), cex =
seqcex, family = "mono",  :
>  family 'mono' not included in PostScript device
>
> 'mono' is perfectly fine for my x11 device and
> # postscriptFonts()$mono
>
> gives me:
> $family
> [1] "Courier"
>
> $metrics
> [1] "Courier.afm"             "Courier-Bold.afm"
> [3] "Courier-Oblique.afm"     "Courier-BoldOblique.afm"
> [5] "Symbol.afm"
>
> $encoding
> [1] "default"
>
> attr(,"class")
> [1] "Type1Font"
>
> That looks all right to me no? How to remedy this?
Use the 'fonts' argument to postscript():

    fonts: a character vector specifying additional R graphics font
           family names for font families whose declarations will be
           included in the PostScript file and are available for use
           with the device. See Details.

>
> Thanks for your patience, Joh
>
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