[R] Information about font

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 9, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Sébastien Bihorel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have this set of R scripts which are ran on a linux box and create plots
> with the lattice package. I do not specify any custom font family, so I
> believe that whatever is the default font on my system is used in the plot.
> 1- how can I know which is the default font used in my plots?
> 2- is this font specific to R or can it be used by external tools?
> 3- if this font can be used by external tools, how can I know the location
> of this font on my system?

Fonts are specific to the graphical device being used. You have not specified what device you are using.

?Devices

The fonts are provided by your OS setup. 

?pdfFonts
?Type1Font
?grid::gpar

> 
> Thank you in advance for your help
> 
> Sebastien
> 
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