R help - Feb 2010 - Changing fonts of axis labels in Histogram() function

Dear All

 

I am using the histogram() function to plot two subsets from my data on the
same output display, i.e. there are two histogram plots

 

My code is:

 

histogram( ~ Age | Date, layout = c(1, 2),

              xlab = "Age (years)",

strip = FALSE, strip.left = TRUE, col = "black",

border = "white", cex.axis = 1.1, family = "serif", cex.lab
= 1.1)

 

However, the cex.axis and family = "" has no impact on the type of
font
displayed for the axis labels. I wish to change the font to Times New Roman.
I also wish to change the ticks inwards and remove colour from the left
panel. Should I just use the hist() function?

 

R version is 2.10.0 on windows XP

 

Thank you

 

Conor

 

Conor Wilson
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conor wilson wrote:
> Dear All
>
>  
>
> I am using the histogram() function to plot two subsets from my data on the
> same output display, i.e. there are two histogram plots
>
>  
>
> My code is:
>
>  
>
> histogram( ~ Age | Date, layout = c(1, 2),
>
>               xlab = "Age (years)",
>
> strip = FALSE, strip.left = TRUE, col = "black",
>
> border = "white", cex.axis = 1.1, family = "serif",
cex.lab = 1.1)
>
>   
Look at the scales() argument in the documentation of xyplot() to change 
the cex and other parameters for the axis. E.g.:

     histogram( ~ height | voice.part, data = singer, nint = 17,
               endpoints = c(59.5, 76.5), layout = c(2,4), aspect = 1,
               xlab = "Height (inches)",
               scales = list(cex = 3))

cheers,
Paul
>  
>
> However, the cex.axis and family = "" has no impact on the type
of font
> displayed for the axis labels. I wish to change the font to Times New
Roman.
> I also wish to change the ticks inwards and remove colour from the left
> panel. Should I just use the hist() function?
>
>  
>
> R version is 2.10.0 on windows XP
>
>  
>
> Thank you
>
>  
>
> Conor
>
>  
>
> Conor Wilson
> PhD student
> Quercus
> School of Biological Sciences
> Queen's University Belfast
> 97 Lisburn Road
> Belfast BT9 7BL
>
>  Tel:  +44(0)28 9097 2066
> Mob:+44(0)77 3243 2267
>
> Fax: +44(0)28 9097 5877
>
> Email: cwilson20 at qub.ac.uk
>
> Web: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/Quercus/AboutUs/Currentstaff/ConorWilson
>
>  
>
>  
>
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