The showtext package is really nice!
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Yixuan Qiu <yixuan....@cos.name> wrote:
> Hi Evan,
> If you just need one font, you may try the showtext package. Here is a
> piece of code that you can test:
>
> library(showtext)
> # If you have this font installed
> font.add("gara", "gara.ttf")
> # Or you can install a similar one from Google Font
> # font.add.google("EB Garamond", "gara")
>
> # Try some plots
> pdf("test.pdf")
> showtext.begin()
> par(family = "gara")
> plot(1, main = "Garamond", type = "n")
> text(1, 1, "Some Text", cex = 5)
> showtext.end()
> dev.off()
>
>
> A more detailed introduction of the showtext package is available at
> http://statr.me/2014/01/using-system-fonts-in-r-graphs/. Hope this would
> be
> helpful for you.
>
>
> Best,
> Yixuan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2014-04-26 16:54 GMT-04:00 Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com>:
> > Greetings --
> >
> > Submitted this a little while ago -- for some reason, still being held
> > up by the moderator. Trying again...
> >
> >
> > For a host of reasons, I need to use/embed Garamond font with various R
> > graphics for a particular publication. I've figured out how to more or
> > less get there from here, using the following sequence:
> >
> >
> > library(extrafont)
> >
> > Then, I need to import the system fonts (Windoze box, R 3.1.0).
> >
> > So, I use
> >
> > font_import()
> >
> > But, this takes a *huge* amount of time, and often throws errors as it
> > chokes on various fonts (I have probably 250+ fonts installed). I only
> > want *one* font (Garamond). But, for the life of me, I can't figure out
> > how to get font_import to select only the single font I want. In theory
> >
> > font_import(paths = NULL, recursive = TRUE, prompt = TRUE, pattern =
> NULL)
> >
> > as defaults, where pattern is a regex that font filenames must match.
> >
> > The file name for Garamong is gara.ttf, so I tried
> >
> > font_import(pattern="gara")
> >
> > R responds with 'Importing fonts make take a few minutes, depending on
> > the...etc, etc'.
> > Continue? [y/n]
> >
> > Hit 'y', and am presented with
> >
> > Scanning ttf files in C:\Windows\Fonts ...
> > Extracting .afm files from .ttf files...
> > Error in data.frame(fontfile = ttfiles, FontName = "", stringsAsFactors
> > = FALSE) :
> > arguments imply differing number of rows: 0, 1
> >
> > I have no idea what to do with this.
> >
> > Suggestions/pointers to the obvious welcome. And I thought futzing with
> > fonts in LaTeX was fun! ;-)
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Yixuan Qiu <yixuan....@cos.name>
> Department of Statistics,
> Purdue University
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