R on windows includes some useful functions for windows font handling.
Start with
?windowsFonts
windowsFonts()
should show Arial mapped to "sans". (Arial is the default in Windows,
at least in my locale; ?windows tells you that too)
Then try
par(family="sans", font=2) #specifies Arial bold as default
However, this just affects text (as in text() ). You need to be more
specific to specify fonts for particular named plot elements. For
example
plot(1:10, main="Title in Arial Bold", font.main=2, font.axis=3,
font.lab=4) #specifies bold main title, italic axis tick labels and
italic bold axis labels
compare this with
par(family="serif") #specifies Times
plot(1:10, main="Title in Times Bold", font.main=2, font.axis=3)
#specifies bold main title and italic axis labels
#note that _all_ the text is in Times.
#If you know your windows font names, you can change the mappings or
add a family:
windowsFonts(comic="TT Comic Sans MS") #sets up your own
'comic'
mapping
par(family="comic") #specifies that this mapping is the default
plot(1:10, main="Comic", font.main=2, font.axis=3) #specifies bold
main
title and italic axis labels - in Comic sans 'cos that's what we set up
Hope that helps,
Steve E
>>> Michael Knudsen <micknudsen at gmail.com> 13/07/2009 18:45:48
>>>
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, serbring<bracardi82 at email.it> wrote:
> excuse me for my english, i am using R on windows and i have to do
several> graphs with axis labels and the axis text thicks has a specified font
type,> (Arial) and a specified font size. How can i do these? Thank you in
advance
Interesting question, I didn't know the answer to, so I tried to look
it up. There might be some help towards the bottom of this page:
http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/parameters.html
It seems to be specific for Windows, so I can't test it myself.
--
Michael Knudsen
micknudsen at gmail.com
http://lifeofknudsen.blogspot.com/
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