[R] X11 font at size 6 could not be loaded

[Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.]

Thank you very much.
I found .noarch.rpm's for the first 4 of the 6 you listed below and installed
them and the problem went away.

Strangely, when I tried to intstall (using rpm -Uvh) the 100 dpi ones I got a
message saying that they were already installed. Nevertheless, when I restarted
the X server, xlsfonts showed more fonts for the 100 dpi case (in particular,
the small ones, 10 and 8) as well as the 75 dpis, which had not been there
before.

I don't understand that, but my problem is solved, so I am happy. Thanks again.

-Ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:00 PM
> To: Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] X11 font at size 6 could not be loaded
> 
> Wittner, Ben, Ph.D. wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my OS to Fedora 8 from Red Hat Enterprise Work
> Station 3.
> > Before I upgraded certain operations would produce a warning to the
> effect that
> > a desired font was not available so one had been substituted, which was
> okay.
> > After the upgrade to Fedora 8, the plotting operation halts midway
> through and I
> > get the following error message:
> > "X11 font at size 6 could not be loaded"
> > This is not okay, because plotting does not complete.
> >
> > I've also gotten that message regarding size 8.
> >
> > In R, if it do getOption("X11fonts") I get
> > [1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> > [2] "-adobe-symbol-medium-r-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> >
> > If from bash I do xlsfonts, I see that I have fonts that match, but the
> smallest
> > seem to be 11 points:
> > -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--11-80-100-100-p-60-iso10646-1
> > -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--11-80-100-100-p-60-iso8859-1
> >
> > If I run the same program on my Fedora 8 system but use an X server on a
> Windows
> > PC (Hummingbird X server), I have no problem.
> >
> > If I can't fix this, this is a disaster for me because some of the most
> common
> > things I do are afflicted by this problem.
> >
> > Can anyone help me get adobe-helvetica 6 and 8 point fonts onto my
> system or
> > give any other advice?
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> > -Ben
> >
> > p.s., I also tried in R
> > options(X11fonts="-misc-fixed-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
> > but that resulted in
> > Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1
> else
> > gamma,  :
> >   invalid 'fonts' value
> > when I tried to plot.
> >
> > p.p.s, here's my version information
> > platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch           i686
> > os             linux-gnu
> > system         i686, linux-gnu
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          6.1
> > year           2007
> > month          11
> > day            26
> > svn rev        43537
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> >
> >
> The usual suspect is that you do not have the unscalable fonts in both
> 75 and 100 dpi:
> 
> xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-3.fc8
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
> xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.2-3.fc8
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-7.2-3.fc8
> xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
> 
> 
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