Use Windows (TTF) font?

cairo, r

Solution

Here is an example adapted from http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/parameters.html:

windowsFonts(Calibri=windowsFont("Calibri"))
par(family="Calibri")
plot(rnorm(1:10))

Problem

Is it possible to use a TTF font in R? Is the cairo package intended for this task? How would a minimal example look like?

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