[R-SIG-Mac] Text will not appear on any graph

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Adrian wrote:

> Thanks again for the suggestions thus far.  In response:
>
> 1) I did enter the quartzFonts() command, and I received what I  
> assume to be
> the expected output:
>> quartzFonts()
> $serif
> [1] "Times-Roman"      "Times-Bold"       "Times-Italic"
> [4] "Times-BoldItalic"
>
> $sans
> [1] "Helvetica"             "Helvetica-Bold"
> [3] "Helvetica-Oblique"     "Helvetica-BoldOblique"
>
> $mono
> [1] "Courier"             "Courier-Bold"        "Courier-Oblique"
> [4] "Courier-BoldOblique"
>
> 2) If I output my plots directly to a pdf file, the text is included  
> just
> fine.  If I run identical commands to be output to the default  
> device, no
> text is displayed.  This seems to indicate that it could be some  
> kind of
> problem with the Quartz device?

Assuming that the quartz device is the current device that is. What  
does dev.cur() return?

-- 
David
>
> 3) The output that I received from the par() command after plotting  
> a graph
> (with no tex) is identical to that received from another user who is  
> able to
> see text graphs.
>
> Ultimately, it would be good to determine and fix the root cause of  
> this
> problem, as it would be convenient to be able to view graphs  
> immediately
> upon generating them.  However, outputting to a PDF file gives me a  
> good
> workaround for the moment.
>
> Thanks again,
> Adrian
>
> 2010/9/4 Susan Gruber <sgruber at berkeley.edu>
>
>> I don't have a solution, but you may get another clue to where the  
>> problem
>> lies if you send the plot directly to a file, and see whether the  
>> text
>> shows up there.
>>
>> pdf()
>> # your plot commands here
>> dev.off()
>>
>>
>> Then look at Rplots.pdf in your working directory.
>>
>> --Susan
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the suggestions thus far.  In response:
>>>
>>> No plotting command includes text, even if it is explicitly  
>>> specified
>> with
>>> the "xlab", "ylab", or "main" commands.  For example:
>>> plot(1:10, xlab="foo", main="bar")
>>> produces a graph with no text on either axis, no numerical labels,  
>>> and no
>>> title.
>>>
>>> As for David's suggestion, this looks similar to a post that I found
>>> online: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.mac/5489.  I  
>>> looked
>>> through my font book and did not find any duplicate fonts.  Just  
>>> to be
>>> sure,
>>> I selected all of the fonts and did a "resolve duplicates" operation
>> under
>>> the Font Book edit menu.  Still no text on any graphs though.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>> 2010/9/4 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 4, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Adrian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am having trouble displaying graphs in R.  Whenever I create  
>>>>> graphs,
>>>>> no
>>>>> axes labels, numerical scales, or titles are displayed.  If I  
>>>>> use the
>>>>> "text()" function to explicitly add text to the graph, no text is
>>>>> displayed.
>>>>> I can see all of the graphs using the "demo(graphics)" command,  
>>>>> but
>>>>> none
>>>>> of
>>>>> the graphs include any text.  I am running R version: R 2.11.1  
>>>>> GUI 1.34
>>>>> Leopard build 32-bit (5589) on Mac OS 10.6.4.  I would be happy to
>>>>> provide
>>>>> any further information that could be useful in diagnosing this
>>>>> problem.
>>>>> Any advice is appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your font library has probably become corrupted. Use Font  
>>>> Book.app to
>>>> look
>>>> at Times, Courier, Helvetica and Symbol and remove any duplicate  
>>>> entries
>>>> that are blank.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>>
>>>>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT