Thanks everyone for your replies. And sorry if I have not been clear enough in my query (although I did say that I run R on Windows).
Typing either par(family="serif") or par(font.axis=6) solved the problem. Much obliged, Graziella --On 08 August 2007 14:58 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, G Iossa, School Biological Sciences wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> Thanks so much for such a quick reply. >> I have tried to set all to Times font running >> >> par(font.lab=6) (not 4, maybe this is a local setting on my machine?) > > '6' is a setting specific to certain devices on Windows. You should > really be using font families (which are quite new and so not used in > many of the introductions). > > par(family="serif") > > will change the default for all the text on subsequent plots to be in a > serif font, which on the windows() device is (by default) Times. > > The R posting guide does ask you to tell us your OS, so that points like > this do not have to be guessed at. > >> but now the boxplot shown has the x and y labels in Times New Roman and >> the x and y axis still in Arial. Any idea why R is not setting those in >> Times? > > Because you did not ask it to. The font of axis annotation is set by > font.axis, not font.lab (which is controls title()'s xlab and ylab and > nothing in axis()). See ?axis and ?par, both of which make this clear. > > John Kane has claimed that what inline pars are used by boxplot() is 'not > clear from ?boxplot', but the lack of clarity is his, not in the > documentation. ?boxplot refers you to ?bxp, and that spells out exactly > which inline pars are used. > >> >> Thanks a lot for your advice, >> Graziella >> >> --On 08 August 2007 09:16 -0400 John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I don't know if boxplot will accept a font argument.m >>> From ?boxplot it is not clear. >>> You may need to set the par() command before the >>> boxplot >>> >>> Example: >>> par(font.lab=4) >>> boxplot(mass ~ family, data=mydata, ylab="mass %", >>> xlab="family",las=1, cex.axis=1) >>> >>> --- "G Iossa, School Biological Sciences" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am very new to R and this might be a simple >>>> question but I have looked >>>> everywhere you suggest before writing to you. >>>> >>>> I am trying to change font type from san-serif to a >>>> serif (Times New >>>> Romans) on all labels and axis of my boxplot. I have >>>> used this function in >>>> other plots before, e.g.: >>>> >>>> plot(residuals~lnlifespan, data=mydata, pch=psymb, >>>> font=6, xlab="ln >>>> reproductive lifespan", ylab="residuals ln mass", >>>> font.lab=6, cex=1.5, >>>> cex.axis=1.5, cex.lab=1.5) >>>> >>>> and found that font.lab or font.axis=6 gives Times >>>> font. However, when I >>>> try for boxplot: >>>> >>>> boxplot(mass ~ family, data=mydata, ylab="mass %", >>>> xlab="family", >>>> font.axis=6, font=6, par(las=1), cex.axis=1) >>>> >>>> it does not work (R does not give any warning >>>> messages). I have also tried >>>> family="Times" but without success. Any idea of why >>>> is not doing it and >>>> what I can do to get Times font on my boxplot? >>>> I run R on Windows. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot, >>>> Graziella >>>> >>>> >>> ***************************************************** >>>> Dr. Graziella Iossa >>>> >>>> Mammal Research Unit >>>> School Biological Sciences >>>> University of Bristol >>>> Woodland Road >>>> Bristol BS8 1UG, UK >>>> >>>> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Tel 0044 (0)117 9288918 >>>> Fax 0044 (0)117 3317985 >>>> http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/mammal/index.html >>>> http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/people/Iossa.htm > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ***************************************************** Dr. Graziella Iossa Mammal Research Unit School Biological Sciences University of Bristol Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1UG, UK E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 0044 (0)117 9288918 Fax 0044 (0)117 3317985 http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/mammal/index.html http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/people/Iossa.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
