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6 messages · Breitbach, Nils, Don MacQueen, Gabor Grothendieck +1 more

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Breitbach, Nils
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Dear Francis,

I also struggle with graphics in R. To get an answer for your specific question it would be necessary to tell the forum what kind of graphic you need (PDF, eps, tif, jpg, ...) and what function you used so far. Generally there is not an all-in-one answer for formatting graphics in R. The book R-Graphics by Paul Murrell is a kind of a standard reference and it might be listed in your university library. Usually formatting is done with par().

For some first ideas try: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html or http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/

Regards,

Nils

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Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t
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Don MacQueen
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The help page for postscript() mentions Times as an available option 
for the "family" argument. That's close, at least.

(And the question would be more appropriate on R-help)

-Don
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      Gabor Grothendieck
    

    

      
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You did not mention your platform but there is info for R on Windows here:

http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/parameters.html
?windows
?windowsFont
file.show(file.path(R.home(), "etc", "Rdevga"))

        
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Francis Smart <smartfra at msu.edu> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Thanks everybody for all of your responses.  I know it sounded like a
dumb question but I really spent a couple of hours going in circles
trying to get the right font before emailing the group.

Thanks for you patience and sorry about emailing the wrong list. I am
running a couple of versions of windows on my machine and I have
already processed the postscript graphs I needed for the publication
using the windowsFonts() function method outlined in the above link.

Take care,
Francis

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Gabor Grothendieck

        
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