--- 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. >
Thanks, that works beautifully. I had seen the 'family=" once but never needed it and forgot about it. > 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 > ______________________________________________ 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.
