[R-SIG-Mac] [R] Mac OS X R.app has trouble rendering certain fonts.

[Carlo Tambuatco]

On 07/03/2010 09:45 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
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>> On Jul 2, 2010, at 9:37 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
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>>> As far I can remember you have never offered either sessionInfor(), 
>>> nor a sample problem in R code, nor an explicit description of what 
>>> is being produced, nor a pdf file that can be examined. I have run 
>>> demo(plotmath) and it appears not to exercise fonts ot any 
>>> exceptional degree .... no theta's, tau's or gamma's. Do you care to 
>>> exapnd on your difficulties?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> David.
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>> From sessionInfo()
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>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
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>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.11.1
>>
>>
>> demo(plotmath) produces a table of equations loaded with sigmas and 
>> pi's, alphas, omicrons, upsilons, etc...
>
> Yes, I did miss the lower right corner of the second page (out of 
> five) where the Greek letters were demonstrated but certainly did 
> notice the set relations and arrows section. What I was asking for is 
> an explicit expansion on the term you used ..."messed up". Your 
> description of problems does not mimic those that I (and others) were 
> earlier having,  were solved by removed corrupted versions of the 
> Symbol font. In that instance printing to the Quartz device produced 
> small empty boxes where Greek letters should have appeared and this 
> happened also when pdf or tiff were used as output devices.
>
>>
>> I'm not sure what demo you're running quite frankly.
>>
>> How else do you want me to "expound on my difficulties"?
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> More specifics, especially in light of your next stated limitations.
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>> I've said as straightforwardly as I can what is happening. My 
>> newsgroup client doesn't allow me to post images to this newsgroup, 
>> so it is difficult for me to show you what I mean, so if you've run 
>> demo(plotmath) you should know which fonts I am referring to.
>
> It's not actually a newsgroup but rather a plain-text mailing list.


It's also a plain text newsgroup. According to my newsgroup client.


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> The default output device is set with the options function:
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> ?device
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> However, when I try that, I still see a Quartz plot with:
> > options(device="X11")
> > plot(1)
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> What I needed to do to get X11 plotting was:
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> dev.off() # closing the default Quartz device
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> Then X11 gets the output. If this is desired for every session then 
> put it in .Rprofile or some other startup mechanism ... see the 
> Installation and Administration manual and
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> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#The-current-and-startup-working-directories 
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