Thanks Nils,

I looked over that book and several other online resources.  It doesn't look
like there is an time-effective way of getting the plot command to use Times
New Roman.  I guess I will just go with serif and hope nobody is watching
very carefully.

my solution

plot(..., font=5, family="serif")

Francis

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Breitbach, Nils <breitbach@uni-mainz.de>wrote:

> Dear Francis,
>
> I also struggle with graphics in R. To get an answer for your specific
> question it would be necessary to tell the forum what kind of graphic you
> need (PDF, eps, tif, jpg, ...) and what function you used so far. Generally
> there is not an all-in-one answer for formatting graphics in R. The book
> R-Graphics by Paul Murrell is a kind of a standard reference and it might be
> listed in your university library. Usually formatting is done with par().
>
> For some first ideas try:
> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html<http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epaul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html>or
> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
>
> Regards,
>
> Nils
>
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> Von: r-sig-geo-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [
> r-sig-geo-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] im Auftrag von Francis Smart [
> smartfra@msu.edu]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. Februar 2010 20:35
> An: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Betreff: [R-sig-Geo] Preparing R plots for Publication
>
> Dear R-Users,
>
> I am attempting to submit an article using R generated plots for
> publication.  I am having a bit of difficulty figuring out how to format my
> plots suitably.
>
> Is there a small tutorial available that walks through how to format plots?
>
> If not perhaps someone could please tell me how to at least change my font
> to Times New Roman.  It does not seam to be a font that is available, yet
> it
> is available on my system.
>
> Thanks,
> Francis Smart
>
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