R on windows includes some useful functions for windows font handling. Start with ?windowsFonts
windowsFonts() should show Arial mapped to "sans". (Arial is the default in Windows, at least in my locale; ?windows tells you that too) Then try par(family="sans", font=2) #specifies Arial bold as default However, this just affects text (as in text() ). You need to be more specific to specify fonts for particular named plot elements. For example plot(1:10, main="Title in Arial Bold", font.main=2, font.axis=3, font.lab=4) #specifies bold main title, italic axis tick labels and italic bold axis labels compare this with par(family="serif") #specifies Times plot(1:10, main="Title in Times Bold", font.main=2, font.axis=3) #specifies bold main title and italic axis labels #note that _all_ the text is in Times. #If you know your windows font names, you can change the mappings or add a family: windowsFonts(comic="TT Comic Sans MS") #sets up your own 'comic' mapping par(family="comic") #specifies that this mapping is the default plot(1:10, main="Comic", font.main=2, font.axis=3) #specifies bold main title and italic axis labels - in Comic sans 'cos that's what we set up Hope that helps, Steve E >>> Michael Knudsen <micknud...@gmail.com> 13/07/2009 18:45:48 >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, serbring<bracard...@email.it> wrote: > excuse me for my english, i am using R on windows and i have to do several > graphs with axis labels and the axis text thicks has a specified font type, > (Arial) and a specified font size. How can i do these? Thank you in advance Interesting question, I didn't know the answer to, so I tried to look it up. There might be some help towards the bottom of this page: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/parameters.html It seems to be specific for Windows, so I can't test it myself. -- Michael Knudsen micknud...@gmail.com http://lifeofknudsen.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________ 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. ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ 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.
