Works fine for me on 10.14.5, both with CRAN-supplied 3.6.0 and locally compiled 3.6.0 Patched (2019-06-23 r76734).
I suspect that you might have a font misconfiguration of sorts on your Mojave machine. -pd > On 24 Jun 2019, at 09:25 , Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> wrote: > > �� Thanks to David Winsemius for his reply.� His attachment came > through and displayed consistent with the R documentation.� Thus, the > cex.axis and cex arguments work fine with R 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) and > "Feather Spray" on OS X 10.11.6, but they don't work properly with the > current version of R under the current version of macOS. > > > �� Spencer > > > On 2019-06-24 00:59, David Winsemius wrote: >>> On Jun 23, 2019, at 10:04 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, All: >>> >>> >>> I'm unable to control font size in plots created by "svg" in R 3.6.0 >>> on macOS Mojave 10.14.5. Consider the following: >>> >>> >>> svg('cex-svg.svg') >>> cex. <- 5 >>> plot(1:2, cex.axis=cex.) >>> text(1:2, 1:2, c('as', 'DF'), >>> cex=cex.) >>> dev.off() >>> >>> >>> When I run this in R 3.5.2 under Windows 7, it works fine. In R >>> 3.6.0 under macOS 10.14.5, I get tiny fonts. Changing "cex." has no impact >>> on the result. A question about this to R-Devel generated replies from >>> Peter Langfelder and David Winsemius, who noted that it worked fine under >>> Ubuntu 18.04 (supposedly with R 3.15.2 -- probably R 3.5.2, but I'm not >>> sure). >> You should be sure. >> >>> I experimented with the width, height, pointsize and family arguments for >>> "svg", without solving this problem. >> With R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) -- "Feather Spray" on OS X 10.11.6 I am >> unable to reproduce. My Mac hardware is considered well past (Apple) end of >> life despite its functionality, so I cannot upgrade my OS. I'm attaching the >> file that is the result so Spencer can view it, although I suspect it will >> be scrubbed by the mail-server. >> >> >> > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac