Folks,
  I run R on a early 2009 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion.

I have a bunch of fonts in my user Library one of which is Garamond.

I have tried the ttf_import function to no avail. I played with this for a couple of hours at least and I have gotten nowhere.

Here is a bit of one of my sessions (note that I used file.choose to get down to the Font level)

> require(extrafont)
Loading required package: extrafont
Registering fonts with R
Warning messages:
1: In loadfonts("pdf", quiet = TRUE) :
  More than one version of regular/bold/italic found for Apple Braille. Skipping setup for this font.
2: In loadfonts("pdf", quiet = TRUE) :
  No regular (non-bold, non-italic) version of Brush Script MT. Skipping setup for this font.
3: In loadfonts("postscript", quiet = TRUE) :
  More than one version of regular/bold/italic found for Apple Braille. Skipping setup for this font.
4: In loadfonts("postscript", quiet = TRUE) :
  No regular (non-bold, non-italic) version of Brush Script MT. Skipping setup for this font.

> fonts()
 [1] ".Keyboard"             "Andale Mono"           "Apple Braille"         "AppleMyungjo"         
 [5] "Arial Black"           "Arial"                 "Arial Narrow"          "Arial Rounded MT Bold"
 [9] "Arial Unicode MS"      "Batang"                "Brush Script MT"       "Calibri"              
[13] "Cambria"               "Candara"               "Comic Sans MS"         "Consolas"             
[17] "Constantia"            "Corbel"                "Courier New"           "Georgia"              
[21] "Gulim"                 "Humor Sans"            "Impact"                "Jazz"                 
[25] "JazzCord"              "JazzPerc"              "JazzText"              "JazzTextExtended"     
[29] "Khmer Sangam MN"       "Krini"                 "Krinitsky"             "Lao Sangam MN"        
[33] "Microsoft Sans Serif"  "MS Gothic"             "MS Mincho"             "MS PGothic"           
[37] "MS PMincho"            "MusicalSymbols"        "Myanmar Sangam MN"     "PMingLiU"             
[41] "SimSun"                "Sinfonia"              "Tahoma"                "Times New Roman"      
[45] "Trebuchet MS"          "Verdana"               "Webdings"              "Wingdings"            
[49] "Wingdings 2"           "Wingdings 3"          

> ttf_import(file.choose())
Scanning ttf files in /Users/kw/Library/Fonts/Garamond ...
Extracting .afm files from .ttf files...
Error in data.frame(fontfile = ttfiles, FontName = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) : 
  arguments imply differing number of rows: 0, 1

Here is what Font Book has to say about the font:

Garamond
Garamond

	PostScript name	Garamond
	Full name	Garamond
	Family	Garamond
	Style	Regular
	Kind	TrueType
	Language	Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Manx, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Oromo, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Zulu
	Script	Latin
	Version	Version 2.35
	Location	/Users/kw/Library/Fonts/Garamond
	Unique name	Monotype - Garamond Regular
	Manufacturer	Monotype Typography, Inc.
	Designer	Claude Garamond
	Copyright	Digitized data copyright Monotype Typography, Ltd 1991-1995. All rights reserved. Monotype Garamond® is a trademark of Monotype Typography, Ltd which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
	Trademark	Monotype Garamond® is a trademark of Monotype Typography, Ltd which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
	Description	Monotype Drawing Office 1922. This typeface is based on roman types cut by Jean Jannon in 1615. Jannon followed the designs of Claude Garamond which had been cut in the previous century. Garamond's types were, in turn, based on those used by Aldus Manutius in 1495 and cut by Francesco Griffo. The italic is based on types cut in France circa 1557 by Robert Granjon. Garamond is a beautiful typeface with an air of informality which looks good in a wide range of applications. It works particularly well in books and lengthy text settings.
	License	NOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENT

This typeface is the property of Monotype Typography and its use by you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. You have obtained this typeface software either directly from Monotype or together with software distributed by one of Monotype’s licensees.

This software is a valuable asset of Monotype. Unless you have entered into a specific license agreement granting you additional rights, your use of this software is limited to your workstation for your own publishing use. You may not copy or distribute this software.

If you have any question concerning your rights you should review the license agreement you received with the software or contact Monotype for a copy of the license agreement.

Monotype can be contacted at:

USA 847-718-0400  UK 44(0)1737 765959

For license terms and usage rights, please visit our web site at www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html
 
Lizenzbedingungen und Nutzungsrechte finden Sie auf unserer Webseite www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html

Pour plus d'informations concernant les droits d'utilisation et les questions contractuelles, veuillez consultez notre site www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html

Para obtener información acerca de los términos de licencia y los derechos de uso, visite nuestro sitio en el Web en www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html

Per le condizioni contrattuali ed i diritti d'uso, visitate il nostro sito web all'indirizzo www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html

	Enabled	Yes
	Duplicate	No
	Copy protected	No
	Embeddable	Yes
	Glyph count	249

Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
KW

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