[R] X11 font

[Ben Bolker]

There's an ancient related question ... maybe it helps?

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2016-October/442326.html


sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
sudo-apt-get install xfonts-75dpi

apt-cache search xfonts doesn't pull up anything else obvious 
(presumably you already have xfonts-base ... ???)

On 2023-08-16 5:08 p.m., Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-help wrote:
> I get the following error out of R, on a newer Ubuntu installation.
> 
> Error in `axis()`:
> ! X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 12 could not be loaded
> Backtrace:
>    1. graphics::matplot(...)
>    3. graphics::plot.default(...)
>    4. graphics (local) localAxis(...)
>    6. graphics:::Axis.default(...)
>    7. graphics::axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...)
> 
> The context is pretty simple:
> 
> library(survival)
> matplot(60:100, 36525* survexp.us[61:101, 1:2, "2014"], col=2:1, lty=1, lwd=2,
>       xlab="Age", ylab="Death rate per 100", log='y', type='l', yaxt='n',
>       main="US Death Rates")
> axis(2, c(1,2,5,10,20, 50), c(1,2,5,10, 20, 50), las=2)
> 
> This code works fine on my screen.   The error comes up when I put it into an .Rmd file
> and apply rmarkdown::render() to it.
> 
> Likely some font file is needed, but what one?
> 
> Terry
> 
> Version:
> R Under development (unstable) (2023-08-01 r84818) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"
> Copyright (C) 2023 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
>