[R] X11 fonts and Ubuntu

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Did try it. Works fine now. Just need to reboot after having modified 
/etc/X11/ xorg.conf as following according to your instructions:

Section "Files"

    # path to defoma fonts
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Thanks a lot,

Patrick


Ilias Soumpasis a écrit :
> 2006/12/17, Patrick Giraudoux <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu 6.10 and installed R 2.4.0. When I
>> run eg plot.lm  (things work fine with plot.default - eg
>> plot(rnorm(30),rnorm(30)))
>>
>> plot(lmobject)
>>
>> I can get the first plot and then this message:
>>
>> Hit <Return> to see next plot:
>> Error in text.default(x, y, labels.id[ind],cex=cex, xpd=TRUE, :
>>     could not find any X11 fonts
>> Check that the Font Path is correct
>>
>> I have googled through the R-help list and it seems that such troubles
>> already occured sometimes (see link below and threads)
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-June/024091.html
>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/03/23864.html
>>
>> but did not find solution. Some messages claim it is a X11 problem (not
>> R) some others suggest it may come from R. Some also mention that UTF-8
>> may be a problem (though I don't have specific message on this from R).
>> I have re-installed x11-common via the Synaptic package manager (so I
>> suppose X11 is well installed) without improvement. I have checked
>> /etc/X11/ xorg.conf
>>
>> Section "Files"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>>     FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
>>     FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
>> Endsection
>
> You 'll have  to change the /usr/share/X11/fonts/ to
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/. I have read many having similar problems and
> solved them this way. The location changed so that all the fonts to be
> under fonts). So give it a try and I believe that it will be fine.
>
>>
>> but cannot identify where the problem is actually thus no remedy.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
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