What if it is being used on a platform other than Windows? This problem is more challenging than you seem to think it is.
I would suggest including a kind of "par" argument to your function that lets the user change your defaults. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On July 27, 2016 2:01:37 PM PDT, "Dalthorp, Daniel" <ddalth...@usgs.gov> wrote: >Hi All, >I am putting together a package that (among other things) draws some >nice >graphs for users. I place some explanatory text on figs using "text" >and >"mtext". But the size of the text depends on the Windows display >settings: >Smaller (100%), medium (125%) or larger (150%) (In Windows 7... Control >panel | Appearance and personalization | Display | Make text and other >items smaller or larger). If I create figs that look good with one >setting, >the text is too big (or too small) if another setting is used in >Windows. >If I know the Windows setting, I can use cex in R to make the right >sized >labels, but if I don't know a user's Windows display size setting...is >there a way for R to read the setting? Or is there another way to >control >label size so that text labels on graphs look good regardless of >WIndows >display size setting? > >Many thanks for Ideas, > >-Dan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
