[R] Font size in plots (I do NOT understand par help)

[Peter Dalgaard]

Stephane Bourgeois wrote:
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> I do not get how par works, help please.
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> Let's say I have a simple plot: plot(1:10)
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> I want to change the font size for the x axis... how do I do that?
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Well, you start by reading help(par) multiple times, and then play 
around....

Start with, e.g.

plot(1:10, cex.axis=2)

The problem with that is that it controls the y axis too, so

plot(1:10, cex.axis=2, yaxt="n")
axis(2)

or vice versa

plot(1:10, xaxt="n")
axis(1,  cex.axis=2)

If you didn't actually mean the values, consider similar techniques 
involving cex.lab or cex.sub and the title() function.

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