Hi
I don't have a Mac, but looking at the source, it seems that
"Times-Roman" is the default "serif" family, so something
like ...
quartz(family="serif")
... might get you what you want(?)
Paul
Daniel J Farrell wrote:> Dear r-help,
>
> I am using R for MacOS (R 2.9.1 GUI 1.28 Tiger build 32-bit (5444))
> and would like to be able to use MacOS system fonts for the labels on
> my plots. So far I have been unsuccessful, to get this to work.
>
> Reading the help I found the quartz() and quartzFonts() commands. In
> an attempt to set the font family I have tried this,
>
> quartz(family="Times-Roman"),
>
> and also this,
>
> quartz.options(family="Times-Roman").
>
> This opens a new Quartz window, but the labels are still in the
> default font, when I make a new plot.
>
> I have two question:
> (1) Why doesn't the quartz(family="Times-Roman") make the
fonts change?
>
> (2) Is it possible to use any MacOS system fonts with R and the Quartz
> device window?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Daniel Farrell
>
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