[R] R 'could not find any X11 fonts'

[fsando]

Thanks anhnmncb
I think the problem comes from the 'adobe' part of the font names - I 
'solved' the problem by installing the newses Ubuntu 7.04 beta and now R 
reports the same font names without 'adobe'.

anhnmncb at gmail.com wrote:
 > You haven't installed such xorg-fonts-75dpi fonts, which is the
 > default xorg's fonts.
 > I think maybe there are other better solutions like changing the default
 > fonts that r looks for, but I don't know how.
 > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:55:53PM +0200, fsando wrote:
 >> I'm having this problem - and I have seen earlier post on the same
 >> problem - but the solutions either do not work for me or (being fairly
 >> new to linux) I do not understand the suggested actions.
 >>
 >> So here goes:
 >> Whenever I try to add a 'main' title R responds with an error that it
 >> can't find any X11 fonts.
 >>
 >> ### Very basic examples ###
 >> # 1. No error (a scatterplot x=1:10 and y=1:10):
 >> plot(1:10,1:10)
 >> # 2. No error (as above, but add a subtitle):
 >> plot(1:10,1:10,sub="subtitle")
 >> # 3a. Error (as above, but add a main title):
 >> plot(1:10,1:10,main="Main title")
 >> # 3b. Error (an equivalent way to produce the same):
 >> plot(1:10,1:10) # no error
 >> title(main="main") # error
 >>
 >> # produced error:
 >>  > plot(1:10,1:10,main="main")
 >> Error in title(...) : could not find any X11 fonts
 >> Check that the Font Path is correct.
 >>
 >> # output from sessionInfo()
 >>  > sessionInfo()
 >> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
 >> i486-pc-linux-gnu
 >>
 >> attached base packages:
 >> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     
"datasets"
 >> [7] "base"    
 >>
 >> # I don't know if this is relevant but
 >> # from getOption("X11fonts")
 >>  > getOption('X11fonts')
 >> [1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
 >> [2] "-adobe-symbol-medium-r-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
 >>
 >> ### examples end ###
 >>
 >> The solution may obvious for somebody more familiar with Linux, but as
 >> stated, I'm new to Linux, so I would appreciate detailed explanations.
 >> Thanks
 >>
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