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

[Peter Dunn]

Thanks Byron.

Is there a way to ensure this happens automatically on the Mac?  (As the example code shows, I didn't explicitly request any particular font.)

The help for quartz() states Helvetic *is* the default font.

This partially works, but it looks like "Arial" is still, somewhere and somehow, being beckoned.  I don't know how R on the Mac works to know what's going on:

> quartz(family="Helvetica")
> hist(rnorm(100))
There were 19 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(2, ...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
14: In axis(2, ...) : 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"
> 



I appreciate the advice.



P.


Peter Dunn: Biostatistician (Room T4.12)
School of Health and Sport Science
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>>> On 17/12/2009 at 03:11 PM, in message
<94D68D9B-A844-455A-A82C-D46BBC5CACE5 at gmail.com>, Byron Ellis
<byron.ellis at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Dunn: Biostatistician (Room T4.12)
>> School of Health and Sport Science
>> Faculty of Science, Health and Education  ML-34
>> University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4
>> Maroochydore DC Qld 4558
>>
>> Tel: +61 7 5456 5085
>> Fax: +61 7 5430 2896
>> Email: pdunn2 at usc.edu.au
>> www.usc.edu.au
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