[R] X11 font -adobe-helvetica size 15 could not be loaded

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See ?X11 and the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'.

You are dragging up ancient history (2002).  The 'modern' X11 device 
(from 2007) uses cairographics and does not use X11 fonts.  I suggest 
you take a look at how R was built and ensure that the cairo-based 
device is available.

Further, for a long time most X11 installations have been from Xorg and 
not Xfree86, and do not generally have a config file.

On 04/04/2013 22:02, Lisa Daniel wrote:
> HI All,
>
> I got this Error message, when I tried to plot
>   X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 5 at size 15 could not be loaded
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>   [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
>   [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] stringr_0.6.2  reshape2_1.2.2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] plyr_1.8    tools_3.0.0
>
>
> I looked online for a solution.and found this (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-June/022116.html).  But,
>
> /etc/X11 $ ls
> app-defaults             rgb.txt  xkb       Xresources  Xsession.options
> default-display-manager  X        Xreset    Xsession    XvMCConfig
> fonts                    xinit    Xreset.d  Xsession.d  Xwrapper.config
>
> doesn't have XF86Config
>
>   capabilities("X11")
>   X11
> TRUE
> names(X11Fonts())
> [1] "serif"        "sans"         "mono"         "Times"        "Helvetica"
> [6] "CyrTimes"     "CyrHelvetica" "Arial"        "Mincho"
>
>
> Then, I installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi (Ubuntu-based).
> xset -q #output
>
>
> Font Path:
>    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,built-ins
> Regards,
> Lisa.
>
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