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

Hans-Jörg Bibiko bibiko at eva.mpg.de
Thu Dec 17 16:15:45 CET 2009


On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Peter Dunn wrote:
> 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: ...

Peter, what do you get if you execute the following command:

quartz.options()$family


?

--Hans


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