[R] Mono in postscript device

[Prof Brian Ripley]

So this was an RTFM issue: you needed to declare fonts="mono".

> postscript(file="myfile.ps", fonts="mono")
> par(family="mono")
> plot(1:10)
> dev.off()

works, as documented.


On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Benjamin Otto wrote:

> Dear Prof. Ripley,
>
> Your version does work indeed, I hadn't tested this one. I tried the
> following two versions where neither of them did:
>
> Version 1:
>> postscript(filename="myfile.ps")

The argument is *file* ....

>> par(mfrow=c(2,2),family="mono")
>> plot(1:10)
>> plot(1:10)
>> plot(1:10)
>> plot(1:10)
>> dev.off()
>
> Version 2:
>> postscript(filename="myfile.ps")
>> plot(1:10,family="mono")
>> dev.off()
>
> Best regards,
>
> Benjamin Otto
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Gesendet: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:48 PM
> An: Benjamin Otto
> Cc: R-Help
> Betreff: Re: [R] Mono in postscript device
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Benjamin Otto wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Plotting a graphic into a postscript device using family="mono"
>> returns the following error message:
>>
>>>> 	family 'mono' not included in PostScript device
>>
>> Looking at postscriptFonts() however lists the "Courier" font as
>> availeable mono font. So where is the problem?
>
> The 'problem' is that you have not provided us with reproducible code, and
> used an obsolete version of R.  At least some of the ways you might have
> done this you needed to specify the 'fonts' argument to postscript().
>
> As a minimal example,
>
>> postscript(family="mono")
>> plot(1:10)
>> dev.off()
>
> works in R 2.6.1.  If that does not work for you, you need to update.
> If it does, you need to consider what you did differently.
>
>> Thanks guys for your help.
>> Best regards
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> [...]
>
>
>

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