Choosing font families and styles under Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
In this recipe, we will see how to choose font families and styles under the three most popular operating systems, namely, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Getting ready
We will only use the base graphics functions for this recipe. So, just open up the R prompt and type in the following code. You might wish to save the code as an R script for later use.
How to do it...
Let's look at all the basic default fonts available under Windows:
par(mar=c(1,1,5,1)) plot(1:200,type="n",main="Fonts under Windows",axes=FALSE,xlab="",ylab="") text(0,180,"Arial \n(family=\"sans\", font=1)", family="sans",font=1,adj=0) text(0,140,"Arial Bold \n(family=\"sans\", font=2)", family="sans",font=2,adj=0) text(0,100,"Arial ...
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