On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Peter Perkins wrote:
> using R 1.2.1 under LinuxPPC, using the default X11 graphics device, i
> can't get the cex= argument for plot() and title() to have any effect.
> works for text(), though. the text size for plot() and title() _is_
> correct if par(cex=size) is called first. oddly, mtext() seems to pay
> attention to cex=, but to ignore the value set by par().
(The latter is a design feature, one that Paul Murrell is considering
changing. The default for cex in mtext is NA, not par("cex"). That is
documented on the help page.)
> for example,
>
> > plot(1:5, 1:5, main="Main", cex=2) # plots title/labels in
std size
You need to use cex.main, cex.sub etc: see ?par.
> > mtext("mtext", side=1, at=1.5, line=1, cex=2) # large text
here
> >
> > par(cex=2)
> > plot(1:5, 1:5, main="Main") # large text now
> > mtext("mtext", side=1, at=1.5, line=1) # but std size here
>
> i don't find this problem in the either the archives or the bug list,
> but i can't really believe that it's a bug and no one else has seen
it
> yet. so perhaps i'm speaking R with an S accent? or doing something
> else stupid? help?
As far as plot() and title() are concerned, it works like this, I
believe. (Also for axis().)
The global setting of cex is used to set the initial scale.
There is *additional* scaling of
main titles by cex.main
sub titles by cex.sub
axis annonation by cex.axis
xlab and ylab by cex.lab
plotted text and symbols by a cex argument.
So par(cex=2) and a local arg of cex=2 are different, deliberately.
As with many things in R graphics, I am not sure the documentation
is more than a sketch, though.
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