Thanks a lot, I'll check out those two options!

Karen

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Yihui Xie <xie@yihui.name> wrote:

> Perhaps you can use ps.options(family = "...") to set the font family
> globally.
>
> If you really want to control R fonts through LaTeX, you can try the
> tikzDevice package (optionally with knitr) following the instructions
> in https://github.com/yihui/knitr-examples/blob/master/059-tikz.Rnw
> This allows you to generate R plots with font style consistent with
> your main document. Two other examples:
> https://github.com/downloads/yihui/knitr/knitr-manual.pdf and
> https://github.com/downloads/yihui/knitr/knitr-graphics.pdf
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
> --
> Yihui Xie <xieyihui@gmail.com>
> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
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> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Karen Kotschy <karen.kotschy@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear help list
> >
> > Does anybody know if it is possible to somehow tell R to let LaTeX handle
> > the fonts for postscript plots produced by R?
> >
> > It is for a thesis and I have MANY figures. These are created by R
> scripts
> > dynamically as the document is compiled, using
> > the Make system. I see that I can `manually' specify the font family each
> > time I call the postscript device, but I am looking
> > for a better way. I would like to do it in a way that allows me to
> specify
> > the font only once, and the same font will then be
> > used throughout. There is too much text to use PSFrag.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> > Karen
>

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