par did the trick!

require(PerformanceAnalytics)
data(managers)
par(cex.lab = 1.5) # Just about the max that you can still fit in the window
size
charts.RollingPerformance(managers) #behold, legible labels!

Thanks Peter

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Peter Carl <peter@braverock.com> wrote:

> par() is your friend, although some of the graphs in PA might ignore
> certain settings.  They will probably become more par friendly in the
> future...
>
> > par(cex.lab=2)
> > charts.RollingPerformance(managers[,1:2])
>
> pcc
> --
> Peter Carl
> http://www.braverock.com/~peter
>
> > Sorry for the ambiguity, but I was referring to changing the size of the
> > labels on the y-axis "Annualized Return", "Annualized Standard
> Deviation",
> > and "Annualized Sharpe Ratio."
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Peter Carl <peter@braverock.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've attached what I get when I run your example.  Sorry to do this to
> >> you, but it works for me:
> >>
> >> > charts.RollingPerformance(managers, cex.lab = 2, cex.axis=2)
> >>
> >> Something in your par settings?
> >>
> >> pcc
> >> --
> >> Peter Carl
> >> http://www.braverock.com/~peter
> >>
> >> > I'm trying to change the font size of the axis labels in the chart
> >> from
> >> > "charts.RollingPerformance" in the PerformanceAnalytics package
> >> without
> >> > any
> >> > luck.
> >> >
> >> > I've tried:
> >> >
> >> > require(quantmod)
> >> > require(PerformanceAnalytics)
> >> > data(managers)
> >> > # tried various cex options like cex.lab, cex.axis, cex.ylab... none
> >> seem
> >> > to
> >> > work
> >> > charts.RollingPerformance(managers, cex.lab = 2, cex.axis=2)
> >> >
> >> > As you can see from the included picture, the default labels are way
> >> too
> >> > small. I'm guessing this is something easy but not obvious. Does
> >> anyone
> >> > know
> >> > how to do this?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
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