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What graphics devices let me use system fonts for text within charts? The base graphics system only has a small amount of documentation around the par(family=...) options.
Ideally I'd like to be able to use any font I can browse through a tool like xfontsel on Linux or the equivalent utilities on other platforms.
My current solution is to plot out as PDF and then use a 3rd party program to replace the fonts from within the PDF. This is not ideal.
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You'll see the default font device "Helvetica".
The integrated fonts in R are sans (Arial), serif (Times New Roman), mono (Courier) and symbol (Standard Symbols L). However, it is possible to add custom fonts in R with the extrafont or the showtext packages.
A list of fonts is available to the pdf() command, like this:
> names(pdfFonts()) [1] "serif" "sans" "mono" [4] "AvantGarde" "Bookman" "Courier" [7] "Helvetica" "Helvetica-Narrow" "NewCenturySchoolbook" [10] "Palatino" "Times" "URWGothic" ... etc ... To use when creating a PDF, for example:
> pdf(file="plot.pdf",family="Palatino", pointsize=16, width=16,height=10) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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