[R-sig-Fedora] Problem with X11 fonts under Fedora 17.

[peter dalgaard]

Rolf,

Like Marc, I'm getting rusty on the Fedora details, but it's possible that the X server or the font server needs to be reset before changes take hold. Possible "xset fp rehash" in a terminal window? Or maybe "service xfs restart".

-pd


On Jan 12, 2013, at 23:23 , Rolf Turner wrote:

> 
> I previously posted about this problem on the r-help list, but was told that I
> should switch over to the r-sig-fedora list.  So here goes:
> 
> When trying to do a plot in a certain context I got an error:
> 
> Error in text.default(2, 6, main, cex = cex) :
>  X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 16 could not be loaded
> 
> This is reproducible (in my current environment) via:
> 
> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
> plot(1:10)
> text(2,6,"Oh, hell!",cex=2)
> 
> Can anyone tell me (in simple comprehensible terms, please) how I might
> make the required font available so that it can be loaded?  I reiterate,
> please keep it simple.  I find fonts toadally incomprehensible!
> 
> For what it's worth, here is my session info:
> > sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-15 r61122)
> > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> >  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] spatstat_1.30-0 deldir_0.0-21   mgcv_1.7-22     misc_0.0-15
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] grid_2.15.2     lattice_0.20-10 Matrix_1.0-10 nlme_3.1-105
> > [5] tools_2.15.2
> 
> NOTE:  In response to this query on r-help I received the suggestion that
> I might need to install:
> 
>    xorg-x11-font-utils
>    xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
>    xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
> 
> I had xorg-x11-fonts-utils installed already, as it turned out, but managed to
> install the other two packages via
> 
>    sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch
>    sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch
> 
> After doing that things changed a *little* bit.  Instead of an error I got a warning:
>> In text.default(2, 6, "Oh, hell!", cex = 2) :
>>  X11 used font size 25 when 28 was requested 
> and no actual characters appeared in the plot but rather 4 (???)
> little rectangles outlined in dotted line type.
> 
> Any ideas as to how to alleviate *this* problem?
> 
> BTW my X11.options()$type is "Xlib".  I tried setting it equal to "cairo" but that
> just made matters worse.  Doing plot(1:10) in a fresh X11() device gave the plot,
> but with the axis labelling replaced by a few of those little dotted-line rectangles.
> 
> Thanks for any insight and advice.
> 
>    cheers,
> 
>        Rolf Turner
> 
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