[R-SIG-Mac] Greek font lost SOLVED

[David Winsemius]

I am on 10.5.8 using the default Quartz screen device. When I followed  
your advice I found that there were two listings for Symbol/Regular  
and that one of them was displaying a blank page within Font Book.app.  
I remove that one, restarted R (after getting pages full of warnings  
in my first re-test) and now I am seeing Greeks again. Somehow a blank  
Symbol font got installed/corrupted or something. Thanks.

-- 
David
On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 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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>

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT