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.
A list of fonts is 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 ...
To use when creating a PDF, for example:
> pdf(file="plot.pdf",family="Palatino", pointsize=16, width=16,height=10)
You can use system fonts with cairo_pdf. On Ubuntu (and many other types of Linux, I guess), the family argument takes any font name you see in fc-list.
Alternatively, you can use the extrafont package. This will allow you to use any system font with the regular pdf device.
