Fonts in R plots

Question

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=...)

Answer 1

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.