[R-SIG-Mac] Plotting problems - where's the text?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Nicholas R Frazier wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I've been using R on my MacBook (OS X 10.6.3, 2 GHz Intel Core Duo) for a
> couple of months now.  I've noticed that whenever I plot a graph, the output
> never shows indices for the axes.  It shows tick marks on the side of the
> graph, but no text.  e.g.
> 
>> test = merge(seq(1:10), seq(1:20))
>> plot(test)
> 
> shows the correct plot, with 4 tick marks up the side of the Y axis, 5 tick
> marks down the X axis, but NO text or numbers anywhere.
> 

Please check your fonts (Applications -> Font Book) and make sure Arial and Helvetica are not disabled or corrupted (those are the defaults - if you changed your font settings in R check the corresponding fonts).

Cheers,
Simon


> As another example, a pairs() plot doesn't show any text along the diagonal
> boxes, as it should.
> 
> Help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick Frazier
> 
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