[R] Fonts in Quartz Devices

Arcadio Rubio García arcadiorubiogarcia at gmail.com
Mon May 12 18:27:06 CEST 2008


El 12/05/2008, a las 18:18, Prof Brian Ripley escribió:

> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Arcadio Rubio García wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to R. I'm using a Mac OS X 10.5 and R 2.7.0. I'm trying to  
>> change the font family for a plot in a quartz device.
>>
>> Simply passing the desired font by using the family argument works  
>> with other devices, but not with quartz. Am I missing anything?  
>> I've already checked the docs for quartz and quartzFonts, but  
>> didn't find a solution.
>
> Can you tell us what you have tried?  Some families worked not long  
> before release, at least.

I tried quartz(family="Monaco") and quartz(family="Courier") with no  
success.

I've just downgraded back to R 2.6.2 and both commands work fine.

>
>
> Such MacOS-specific questions are more likely to get an informed  
> answer on R-sig-mac.
>
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> A. Rubio
>
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