Hi: demo(graphics) has a lot of nice examples of how to use various features - one of them is font selection.
font = 3 => italic font = 4 => bold italic You need to select the correct aspect of the plot, however: font.main, font.sub, font.lab or font.axis (from par()). HTH, Dennis On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Alejo C.S. <alej....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list, I making some box-and-whisker plots in R with vertebrate > data. The x axis are species names that must be in italics. I tried > with the "axis" function but no luck, and it seems that affects both > axes. > Any tip? > > Thanks a lot in Advance. > > Alej > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.