Font Arial in R

See stat.ethz.ch

Install fonts

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras


In console

ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf > ~/afont/arial.afm
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ariali.ttf > ~/afont/ariali.afm
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf > ~/afont/arialbd.afm
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arialbi.ttf > ~/afont/arialbi.afm

In R

postscript("fa1x.eps",
family=c("/home/pvl/afont/arial.afm","/home/pvl/afont/arialbd.afm","/home/pvl/afont/ariali.afm","/home/pvl/afont/arialbi.afm"),
horizontal=FALSE, height=4.5, width=7.5, paper = "special", pointsize=4)