I know that this has been asked before in other variations but I just can't seem to figure out my particular application from previous posts. My apologies if I have missed the answer to this question somewhere in the archives. I have indeed looked.
I am running Ubuntu 11.04, with R 2.12.1 and ESS+Emacs. For journal formatting requirements, I need to italicize all the greek letters in any plot. This is reasonably straight forward to do and I accomplished this task like so: library(ggplot2) label_parseall <- function(variable, value) { plyr::llply(value, function(x) parse(text = paste(x))) } dat <- data.frame(x = runif(270, 0, 125), z = rep(LETTERS[1:3], each = 3), yy = 1:9, stringsAsFactors = TRUE) #unicode italicized delta dat$gltr = factor(c("italic(\u03b4)^14*N","italic(\u03b4)^15*N","italic(\u03b4)^13*C")) #So this is what I want my plot to look like: plt <- ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = yy, y = x)) + geom_point(aes(x= yy, y=x, shape=z, group=z), alpha=0.4,position = position_dodge(width = 0.8)) + facet_grid(gltr~.,labeller= label_parseall, scales="free_y") plt #So then I exported my plot as a PDF like so: pdf("Times_regular.pdf", family='Times') plt dev.off() #The problem with this was that the delta symbols turned into dots. #I solved this problem using Cairo library(Cairo) cairo_pdf("Cairo.pdf") plt dev.off() The problem that I face now is that I am unsure how to output a figure that maintains the greek symbols but outputs everything in the plot as TImes New Roman, another requirement of the journal. So I can produce a Times New Roman PDF plot and an italicize greek symbol unicode PDF plot but not both. Does anoyone have any idea how I might accomplish both of these things together in a single PDF? Thanks so much in advance, Sam [[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.