[R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?
Hi, I am fairly new to GNU R ! At the moment I am doing an intensive learning on the basics of GNU R-1.91, especially graphics like plots and alike, by reading the introductory docs! Well, except some occasional glitches (X11 output errors) everything seems to be fine, thanks to developers for this fine program! But there is a slight problem with the size of fonts in graphics, i.e. its very hard form me to read labels of variables in plots or other graphical representations! (yes, I am little short sighted) How may I mainpulate/enlarge the fonts size in graphics from within GNU R ? Thanks for your time Thomas System: GNU/Linux (Debian Sid) GNU R: 1.91 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
RE: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?
Hi Thomas! Try ?par at the R prompt, there you will get all the necessary information to change the appearance of graphics. Daniel -- Daniel Hoppe Department of Marketing University of Vienna Bruenner Strasse 72 1210 Vienna Austria -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Schönhoff Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:47 AM To: R User-Liste Subject: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics? Hi, I am fairly new to GNU R ! At the moment I am doing an intensive learning on the basics of GNU R-1.91, especially graphics like plots and alike, by reading the introductory docs! Well, except some occasional glitches (X11 output errors) everything seems to be fine, thanks to developers for this fine program! But there is a slight problem with the size of fonts in graphics, i.e. its very hard form me to read labels of variables in plots or other graphical representations! (yes, I am little short sighted) How may I mainpulate/enlarge the fonts size in graphics from within GNU R ? Thanks for your time Thomas System: GNU/Linux (Debian Sid) GNU R: 1.91 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?
Thomas Schönhoff wrote: Hi, I am fairly new to GNU R ! At the moment I am doing an intensive learning on the basics of GNU R-1.91, especially graphics like plots and alike, by reading the introductory docs! Well, except some occasional glitches (X11 output errors) everything seems to be fine, thanks to developers for this fine program! But there is a slight problem with the size of fonts in graphics, i.e. its very hard form me to read labels of variables in plots or other graphical representations! (yes, I am little short sighted) How may I mainpulate/enlarge the fonts size in graphics from within GNU R ? See ?plot, ?plot.default and ?par, in particular look out for all arguments containing the letters cex Uwe Ligges BTW: It is called R-1.9.1 Thanks for your time Thomas System: GNU/Linux (Debian Sid) GNU R: 1.91 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?
The X11 device has an argument `pointsize' (which may well mean pixel size in a particular implementation of X11, as my laptop for example has width, height and pointsize all much smaller than specified): just increase it. The advice to look at ?par is incorrect if you want to scale everything, as I think you do. If you want auto-launched windows to have a larger font, you need to write a wrapper to X11 and set options(device=wrapper_name). On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Thomas Schönhoff wrote: I am fairly new to GNU R ! At the moment I am doing an intensive learning on the basics of GNU R-1.91, especially graphics like plots and alike, by reading the introductory docs! Well, except some occasional glitches (X11 output errors) everything seems to be fine, thanks to developers for this fine program! But there is a slight problem with the size of fonts in graphics, i.e. its very hard form me to read labels of variables in plots or other graphical representations! (yes, I am little short sighted) How may I mainpulate/enlarge the fonts size in graphics from within GNU R ? -- 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, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The X11 device has an argument `pointsize' (which may well mean pixel size in a particular implementation of X11, as my laptop for example has width, height and pointsize all much smaller than specified): just increase it. The advice to look at ?par is incorrect if you want to scale everything, as I think you do. If you want auto-launched windows to have a larger font, you need to write a wrapper to X11 and set options(device=wrapper_name). Also, check out the dpi settings for your display (xdpyinfo). If this is set lower than the physical reality, then pointsizes are overestimated (so fonts are smaller than they should be). How to change it is left as an exercise BTW, it's 1.9.1, 1.91 is not in the plans (and wouldn't be for the next forty years or so). On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Thomas Schönhoff wrote: I am fairly new to GNU R ! At the moment I am doing an intensive learning on the basics of GNU R-1.91, especially graphics like plots and alike, by reading the introductory docs! Well, except some occasional glitches (X11 output errors) everything seems to be fine, thanks to developers for this fine program! But there is a slight problem with the size of fonts in graphics, i.e. its very hard form me to read labels of variables in plots or other graphical representations! (yes, I am little short sighted) How may I mainpulate/enlarge the fonts size in graphics from within GNU R ? -- 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, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?
Hello, Thomas Schönhoff wrote: Well, thanks, I'll have a look at your advices. regards Thomas __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
