[R] fonts in mosaic

[Achim Zeileis]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Erich Neuwirth wrote:

> Achim
> I simply want to replace the font R uses on mosaic (whatever it is)
> by a font of my choice (say Calibri or Arial)
> because I need to embed the R charts in a PowerPoint
> presentation and want the fonts to match.

Ah, ok, sorry I misread your mail.

> And I want the most simple way of accomplishing this.
> I worked my way through the strucplot vignette,
> but I could not extract enough information there.
> Is there some information about the proper font names
> to use in R?

Hmm, if you look at

   help("gpar", package = "grid")

it allows specification of a "fontfamily" argument. But I'm not sure how 
this can be utilized to specify certain TTFs. But I remember seeing posts 
on the mailing list related to this.

In any case, I don't think that this is specific to "vcd" but pertains to 
"grid" in general.

hth,
Z

>
>> Personally, I simply change the size of the device I'm plotting on. When
>> I plot on a large device, the fonts will be relatively smaller, and vice
>>> versa. This is what I do when including graphics in PDF files (papers,
>>> slides, reports, etc.).
>>>
>>> For fine control, you can set the arguments of the labeling function
>>> employed. ?strucplot shows that the default is ?labeling_border which
>>> has several arguments. For example you can set the graphical parameters
>>> of the labels (gp_labels) or the graphical parameters of the variable
>>> names (gp_varnames). Both arguments take ?gpar lists ("grid" graphical
>>> parameters). For example you may do
>>>
>
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