R SIG Debian - Dec 2010 - No fonts control on Cairo in batch mode

Dear all,

I've sent this question to the r-help mailing list, but maybe it is 
better suited for the r-sig-debian mailing list, although this is not 
Debian (but still Linux):

I am using Cairo version 1.4-5 for plotting R graphs on a Gentoo system 
that does not have X11 installed. I have full control on the fonts when 
running R in interactive mode. But when running R in batch mode I cannot 
change e.g. font size. Letters (including symbols) are, however, drawn.

I am exporting the following environemntal variables when running R in 
batch mode to point to pkgconfig, which is used by Cairographics, and 
which I installed in a non-standard local.

export PATH="$HOME/software/bin:$PATH"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/software/lib/pkgconfig
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/software/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Any help would be highly appreciated, Christian

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