[R-SIG-Mac] quartz() cannot find fonts

[Byron Ellis]

Arial is a Microsoft font, try switching to Helvetica (Arial is a  
clone of this font)



On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:58 PM, "Peter Dunn" <pdunn2 at usc.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am a long-time R user, who has just recently traded in my old  
> linux box for a Mac.  That is, I am reasonably familiar with R, but  
> not (yet) with Macs.
>
> I am having this problem when producing graphics with quartz() (but  
> not x11()):
>
>> quartz()
>> hist(rnorm(100))
> There were 23 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
>> warnings()
> Warning messages:
> 1: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab,  ... :
>  no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 2: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab,  ... :
>  no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 3: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab,  ... :
>  no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 4: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab,  ... :
>  no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 5: In title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab,  ... :
>  no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 6: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 7: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 8: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 9: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 10: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 11: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 12: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 13: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 14: In axis(1, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 15: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 16: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 17: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 18: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 19: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 20: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 21: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 22: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
> 23: In axis(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>
> This problem has been reported before on the list, but has not (as  
> far as I can see) been resolved.
>
> Any advice much appreciated.
>
> Thanks as always.
>
> P.
>
>
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