On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Kenneth Takagi wrote: > Thanks for your help. I tried par(family="serif") and it worked well. > I'm running R 2.6.1, on windows XP machine. font=6 appears to be > similar to times new roman or serif, they appear to be very similar (to > my untrained eye). Serif seems to work fine for my needs!
It is 'Times New Roman' unless you altered it: see etc/Rdevga. And that is what 'serif' maps to > > Thanks, > Ken > > Kenneth Takagi > MS Student > Crop and Soil Sciences > 412 ASI Building > University Park, PA 16802 > Ph: (814)-863-7638 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 2:05 AM > To: Kenneth Takagi > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] How to Include greek symbol in axis label? > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Kenneth Takagi wrote: > >> Hi, I'm fairly new to R, so hopefully this is an easy question... > > Sorry, no as you haven't given us the minimum information asked for in the > posting guide and we are reduced to attempted mind reading. > > What is 'font=6'? > > R only has font = 1 to 5. There is an extension on the windows() device > only (but you have not mentioned an OS): nowadays the use of > par(family=) is preferred. So a likely answer is to use > par(family="serif") > > BTW, this is not a 'greek character'. It is the mathematical symbol phi, > and that is distinct from the Greek character, and not in whatever > 'font=6' is. > >> On a plot, I would like to have the y label read: "Response(phi)" with >> phi = the greek character. From old posts I've found this: >> >> title(ylab=expression(paste("Response (", phi, ")"))) >> >> This displays nicely, but in the default font. I would like to use >> font=6 (which is the font of the other labels, title, etc.). Is there >> an way to display the y-label in font=6 and still include the greek >> character? Is there an easier way to do this? >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> Ken >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
