[R-SIG-Mac] No labels/titles shown on Mac

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Gommo Skipper wrote:

> I found the problem with the Arial font.
>
> Apparently this is due to a conflict between the Arial font installed by MS
> Entourage (argh!) and the default Arial in Snow leopard. The MS version
> installed in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft
> is not compatible with Snow and shows as blank font. Unfortunately it seems
> to take priority to the default Snow Arial and is not visible in font book.
>
> Deleting Arial from /Library/Fonts/Microsoft fixed the problem for me.
>
> I found this because Entourage was having the same trouble displaying html
> mail with Arial and this pointed me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks,
> gommo.
>
> PS: I don't seem to find my messages in the r-sig-mac archives... any
> problem there?

No, your end.  I see a thread starting 
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-January/007068.html for 
example. And googling your 'name' (is it real?) gave gmane links at 
the top of the list.

>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Gommo Skipper <gommoskipper at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>> thank you for the quick reply. Indeed, seems you've nailed the problem.
>>
>> This has the problem:
>>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO",family="Arial")
>>
>> Helvetica instead works properly:
>>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO",family="Helvetica")
>>
>> My quartz.options() shows:
>> $family
>> [1] "Helvetica"
>>
>> If I open a new quartz with par(family="Helvetica"), I can use both
>>
>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO")
>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO",family="<whatever>")
>>
>> But family="Arial" shows empty labels.
>>
>> This might seem a stupid question, but:
>>  1. How do I change the default font family for quartz?
>> 2. How do I check if Arial family is disabled (it is installed in my Mac
>> and I can use the font in other programs).
>>
>> I don't really need "Arial", but I can't seem to find the correct way to
>> specity a different default family (par("mono") opens a new quartz window
>> and
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Gommo
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Simon Urbanek <
>> simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 31, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Gommo Skipper wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use the mac port of R and have problem seeing any label in
>>> my
>>>> plots. There's no main title, labels and no errors spitting from the R
>>>> console.
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> I'm trying to use quartz on a x64 snow leopard:
>>>>
>>>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>>>> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO")
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a stock installation, and I'm out of ideas on how to fix it.
>>>> Any hints?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I cannot reproduce it, but this sounds like a font issue. Have you
>>> disabled some fonts (such as Arial) on your system? (see the recent
>>> discussion on this) Try using some font that you have on your system, e.g.
>>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO",family="Monaco")
>>> or
>>> hist(rnorm(100),main="HELLO",family="Helvetica")
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
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