What graphics devices let me use system fonts for text within charts? The base graphics system only has a small amount of documentation around the par(family=...) options.
Ideally I'd like to be able to use any font I can browse through a tool like xfontsel on Linux or the equivalent utilities on other platforms.
My current solution is to plot out as PDF and then use a 3rd party program to replace the fonts from within the PDF. This is not ideal.
I was curious about this as well so after a little digging I found this blog post on the topic:
http://www.jameskeirstead.ca/general/changing-the-fonts-in-r-plots/
It's not as easy as selecting it from a font browsing tool, but it seems to work for any font you have on your system. I hope that helps.
I just worked on this issue this morning. I found that you can get a list of fonts available to the pdf() command like this:
> names(pdfFonts())
[1] "serif" "sans" "mono"
[4] "AvantGarde" "Bookman" "Courier"
[7] "Helvetica" "Helvetica-Narrow" "NewCenturySchoolbook"
[10] "Palatino" "Times" "URWGothic"
... etc ...
So I then went about my business with this:
> pdf(file="plot.pdf",family="Palatino", pointsize=16, width=16,height=10)