[Rd] RE: [R] SAS or R software

[Marc Schwartz]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:40 +1300, Paul Murrell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Frank E Harrell Jr [mailto:f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu]
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >>This is neat Greg.  Just installed the latest gregmisc.  Do you 
> >>automatically used fixed width fonts for this, for alignment 
> >>of columns? 
> > 
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I haven't found any way to select fixed-width fonts, so I
> > convert the character vector into a matrix of individual characters so that
> > they align properly.  Its pretty horrid.  
> > 
> > I hope that the R developers will provide a way of selecting a fixed width
> > font in the future so I can remove this ugly hack.
> 
> 
> Does par(family="mono") do what you want?
> 
> Paul


It works here using R 2.0.1 under FC3. I tried it to the display and
with pdf() using sinkplot().

With postscript() one can use the 'family = "Courier' argument as well.
Seems to work here.

According to ONEWS, par("family") is new for 2.0.0.  Missed that one.

Thanks Paul.

Marc