[R] Set system font in R package Cairo in Mac OS X

[Sverre Stausland]

Because of the issue raised in
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-November/362896.html, I am
switching to R on Mac OS X (10.6.8) to create some plots. Using
CairoPDF(), however, the commands I use in Windows (7) to select my
fonts don't have any effect on Mac OS X, where the output .pdf file
always has the Helvetica font.

library(package = "Cairo")
CairoPDF("test.pdf")
plot.new()
text(x=.5,y=.5,labels="\u0260",family="Times New Roman")
dev.off()

The outputs are attached. The Times New Roman font is exactly the same
on both systems. I'm using R 3.0.2 on both systems.

Sverre
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