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Map of the Windows Fonts Registered with R

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If you already found package extra then you probably found how to load and use Windows s in R visualizations. But just in case, everything to get started with extra is found here and summarized for using s in Windows for on-screen or bitmap output below:


One thing to add is a summary of all Windows s registered in R. This will come handy when designing new visualizations and deciding on which or combination of s and their faces to use. The code below produces a table where rows are s and columns are faces with name printed using both the and the face (if available) in each table cell:


The resulting table is this handy visual:



You can download this image or produce your own with the code above.

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