[R] Possible or not possible: serif axis labels with plotmath [but everything else sans serif]?

[Eik Vettorazzi]

Hi Jan Marius,
I had a lot of positive experience with tkiz, but yes, handling large
datasets can push it to the limits.

Anyway, in your case, isn't it as simple as

plot(x, y, type="b",xlab="",ylab="")
title(xlab=expression(x[1]), ylab=expression(x[2]),family="serif")

cheers

Am 19.09.2011 14:51, schrieb Hofert Jan Marius:
> Dear Eik,
> 
> although possible in this case, tikzDevice is certainly not a general solution to all kinds of problems :-) I used it for quite some time before I gave up: I had a simple bar plot, the bars being black. This already caused errors like "TeX capacity exceeded" ... and I obtained these a lot. In fact, enlarging the TeX capacity (not trivial but possible) did not solve these issues. That's why I gave up on this package [although, clearly, the idea of full TeX support is totally appealing -- that's why I looked at the package in the first place].
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
> 
> On 2011-09-19, at 14:38 , Eik Vettorazzi wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jan Marius,
>> using the tikzDevice-package, nearly everything is possible (at least,
>> all what can be done in LaTeX).
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Am 19.09.2011 11:58, schrieb Hofert Jan Marius:
>>> Dear expeRts,
>>>
>>> I it possible to have serif labels in the following plot?
>>>
>>> x <- 1:10
>>> y <- x
>>> plot(x, y, type="b", xlab=expression(x[1]), ylab=expression(x[2]))
>>>
>>> I know that one can use pdf(, family="serif"), but then also the axis tick marks 
>>> are printed in serif font. Apart from the fact that it may not look nice, I'm 
>>> just interested if one can have serif axis labels but everything else in sans serif
>>> (default).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Marius
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Vorstandsmitglieder: Prof. Dr. Jörg F. Debatin (Vorsitzender), Dr. Alexander Kirstein, Joachim Prölß, Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Koch-Gromus