[R] Controlling R fonts through LaTeX

[Yihui Xie]

Perhaps you can use ps.options(family = "...") to set the font family globally.

If you really want to control R fonts through LaTeX, you can try the
tikzDevice package (optionally with knitr) following the instructions
in https://github.com/yihui/knitr-examples/blob/master/059-tikz.Rnw
This allows you to generate R plots with font style consistent with
your main document. Two other examples:
https://github.com/downloads/yihui/knitr/knitr-manual.pdf and
https://github.com/downloads/yihui/knitr/knitr-graphics.pdf

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Karen Kotschy <karen.kotschy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear help list
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to somehow tell R to let LaTeX handle
> the fonts for postscript plots produced by R?
>
> It is for a thesis and I have MANY figures. These are created by R scripts
> dynamically as the document is compiled, using
> the Make system. I see that I can `manually' specify the font family each
> time I call the postscript device, but I am looking
> for a better way. I would like to do it in a way that allows me to specify
> the font only once, and the same font will then be
> used throughout. There is too much text to use PSFrag.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Karen