[R-SIG-Mac] Greek font lost

[Simon Urbanek]

David,

which graphics device and which OS are you talking about? For Quartz it is the Symbol font that is used (if I remember correctly) - please check your Font Book and make sure it's not disabled.

Cheers,
Simon


On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:17 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> Dear MacRs;
> 
> I have been having this problem for a while, but thought that when I updated to 2.11.1 that it might get fixed, but just did that and it persists. When I use plotmath functions, I see little empty boxes where I should be seeing theta's and phi's:
> 
> require(graphics)  # the first plotmath example
> x <- seq(-4, 4, len = 101)
> y <- cbind(sin(x), cos(x))
> matplot(x, y, type = "l", xaxt = "n",
>        main = expression(paste(plain(sin) * phi, "  and  ",
>                                plain(cos) * phi)),
>        ylab = expression("sin" * phi, "cos" * phi), # only 1st is taken
>        xlab = expression(paste("Phase Angle ", phi)),
>        col.main = "blue")
> axis(1, at = c(-pi, -pi/2, 0, pi/2, pi),
>     labels = expression(-pi, -pi/2, 0, pi/2, pi))
> # -- no phi's or pi's or warnings ---
> 
> How do I identify which library should be replaced or repaired or added to my PATH or which option set?
> 
> Have searched archives and FAQs, but maybe I'm not using same terms or understanding what I am being told.
> 
> -- 
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
> 
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-06-14 r52281)
> 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
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] lattice_0.18-8
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.11.1  tools_2.11.1
> 
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