Importing new fonts with the extrafont package

This recipe teaches you how to use the ggtech package to coerce themes to resemble some tech companies (like Google, Facebook and Twitter) styles. To do this, we first need to have some fonts installed into our system and only then we can have them imported into R to later be used.

This recipe demonstrates how fonts required by ggtech can be installed and imported into your R Session. By learning it, you will also be able to import and use any font installed into your system. The main package used to this intent is extrafont.

Getting Ready

For this recipe, two packages are going to be called, downloader and extrafont; make sure that both are installed by running the following code:

> if(!require(downloader)){install.packages('downloader')}
> if(!require(extrafont)){ install.packages('extrafont')}

Now that we have both packages installed, proceed to font downloading, installation, and importation processes.

How to do it...

Importing new fonts...