[R] Font size in plots (I do NOT understand par help)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Stephane Bourgeois wrote:

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> I do not get how par works, help please.
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> Let's say I have a simple plot: plot(1:10)
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> I want to change the font size for the x axis... how do I do that?

You mean of the tick labels (as distinct from the ylab)?  Look at

plot(1:10, xaxt="n")
axis(1, cex.axis=1.5)

and then look up ?par for the descriptions.

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