Brent, No, cex doesn't work (as you have discovered). That is a bug. I will work on it.
In the meantime, try Rgraphviz called from fa.rgaph or use the output from fa.graph which produces a dot file for processing with any graphic package (including graphviz) which handles the dot language. Bill On Nov 26, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Brent Caldwell <brent.caldw...@otago.ac.nz> wrote: > Dear R help > I have conducted a fa() analysis, and I want to use fa.diagram to assess > the extent to which the 11 latent factors predict the 37 items in a > psychological battery. However, the display on the screen has very large > font size for the coefficients of the relationship between the 11 factors and > the 37 items, so the numbers overlap and are therefore illegible. When I > output this to a pdf the problem is exacerbated even further (see > attachments). I tried to use cex=0.8 and cex=0.4 in the pdf argument but it > made no difference - what can I do? > The code I used is: > fa.diagram(fa.11factors.rawdata) > # Start PDF device driver to save output to fa_diagram.pdf > pdf(file="I:\\ZAPi\\Tables-of-R-output\\fa_diagram.pdf", height=10, width=5) > fa.diagram(fa.11factors.rawdata) > #box() # Create box around plot > dev.off() # Turn off device driver (to flush output to PDF) > > pdf(file="I:\\ZAPi\\Tables-of-R-output\\fa_diagram_cex.pdf", height=8, > width=5) > fa.diagram(fa.11factors.rawdata,cex=0.8) > #box() # Create box around plot > dev.off() # Turn off device driver (to flush output to PDF) > Thank you so much for your time > Yours sincerely > Brent Caldwell > > <fa_diagram_cex.pdf><fa_diagram.pdf>______________________________________________ > 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. William Revelle http://personality-project.org/revelle.html Professor http://personality-project.org Department of Psychology http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/ Northwestern University http://www.northwestern.edu/ Use R for psychology http://personality-project.org/r It is 5 minutes to midnight http://www.thebulletin.org ______________________________________________ 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.
