Re: [R] Changing font in boxplots
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 __ 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. __ 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.
[R] Changing font in boxplots
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 __ 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.
Re: [R] Changing font in boxplots
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?) 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? 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 __ 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. Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com * 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.
Re: [R] Changing font in boxplots
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, UKFax: +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.
Re: [R] Changing font in boxplots
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?) 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? Try par(font.axis=6) 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 __ 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. Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com * 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. --- Scanned by M+ Guardian Messaging Firewall --- HTH Rob __ 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.
Re: [R] Changing font in boxplots
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, UKFax: +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.
Re: [R] Changing font in boxplots
--- 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, UKFax: +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.
