[R] Error on X11 or on R?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Elio Mineo <mineoeli at unipa.it> writes:

> Dear list,
> I am using R version 2.0.0 under Linux Mandrake 10.0. I have installed
> R by using the rpm file on CRAN.
> By executing the following code, I have this output (the text file
> formaggio.txt is attached):
> 
>  > dati <- read.table("formaggio.txt", header=TRUE)
>  > plot(dati)
> Error in text.default(x, y, txt, cex = cex, font = font) :
>         X11 font at size 16 could not be loaded
> 
> Is it a X11 problem or a R problem? What can I do to solve this problem?

It's a buglet in R, but it is easily fixed by ensuring that you
install both 75dpi and 100dpi X11 fonts, or stop telling your font
server not to scale fonts.

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