Modifying fonts in ggplot2

Question

I am looking for a way to modify font types in ggplot. At the moment I would be happy enough to simply change fonts to the \'courier\' font family, but ultimately my goal is

Answer 1

Inspired by a post on kohske's blog I came up with this:

theme_set( theme_bw( base_family= "serif"))

theme_update( panel.grid.minor= theme_blank(),
             panel.grid.major= theme_blank(),
             panel.background= theme_blank(),
             axis.title.x= theme_blank(),
             axis.text.x= theme_text( family= "serif",
               angle= 90, hjust= 1 ),
             axis.text.x= theme_text( family= "serif"),
             axis.title.y= theme_blank())

theme_map <- theme_get()

theme_set( theme_bw())

Now when I want to use that particular theme:

last_plot() + theme_map

YMMV.

BTW, if I had the power I would vote down the preferred answer:

> grid.gedit("GRID.text",gp=gpar(fontfamily="mono"))
Error in editDLfromGPath(gPath, specs, strict, grep, global, redraw) :
  'gPath' (GRID.text) not found

Not sure what this means. Nor was I offered a link to comment on that answer; maybe something has changed on the site.