[R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

[Jari Oksanen]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 23:26 -0800, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I googled "os x corrupt font cache" and came up with a few hits.
> The top hit was:
>    http://www.macworld.com/article/139383/2009/03/fontcacheclear.html
> and it suggested issuing three lines below from unix prompt:
>    atsutil databases -removeUser
>    atsutil server -shutdown
>    atsutil server -ping
> Unfortunately, it didn't cure the problem.  The above link states:
> "Prior to OS X 10.5, all font caches ..."  The date of article is
> Mar 13, 2009.  As I stated before, mine is 10.6.6.
> 
> Another hit was:
>    http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071026081555971
> it specifically says, "10.5 Only."  It is different from
> the previous one, but slightly messy:
>    sudo rm -rf `lsof | grep com.apple.ATS/annex.aux \
>      | grep Finder | cut -c 66-139`
> 
> I didn't try this one because with different rev constants like
> 66-139 scare me.  Plus I am happy with X11() and/or adding
> Family="sans" in the plot(foo ~ moo). Either is good enough
> fix/work-around for me.

Tena,

If it is corrupted font cache, it will probably also bug you elsewhere
than in R graphics. I have once solved this problem in my wife's iMac
when she was unable to print Word documents from her job. After googling
around, I finally used FontBook.app  which is a standard graphical MacOS
application installed with your OS in the Applications folder. It was
able to find and remove duplicated fonts and check the integrity of the
font files. Took some time, but worked. 

Cheers, Jari Oksanen  

> On 1/19/11 3:22 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Missing labels has been reported several times, and AFAIK has always
> > indicated a corrupt font cache (or other problems in the font book).
> > There are various ways to repair that, so I'll leave you to Google for
> > one.
> > 
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Phillip Jardine wrote:
> >



>  
> >> Tena,
> >> 
> >> I had the same problem myself a few months ago, when I upgraded to
> >> OS X 10.6.5 (from OS X 10.4) I don't know why this happened, but by
> >> trial and error I found that putting family = "sans" into the plot
> >> command brought back the labels.
> >> 
> >> Bizarrely though things recently started working normally again,
> >> with no updates/upgrades on my part. Strange, eh?
> >> 
> >> Anyway, try the family = "sans" thing, it might help.
> >> 
> >> Best wishes,
> >> 
> >> Phil
> >> --
> >> Phil Jardine
> >> Geosystems Research Group
> >> School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences
> >> University of Birmingham
> >> Edgbaston
> >> Birmingham
> >> B15 2TT
> >> 
> >> pej083 at bham.ac.uk
> >> Tel. 0121 414 6146
> >> http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/pgpej083.shtml
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org] On
> >> Behalf Of Tena Sakai [tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu]
> >> Sent: 19 January 2011 04:29
> >> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> >> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quarts.
> >> 
> >> Greetings,
> >> 
> >> I have noticed a bit odd behavior of plot() on OS X 10.6.5.
> >> The R I downloaded from cran is R-2.12.1.pkg.  Below is
> >> what I did:
> >> 
> >>        R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
> >>               .
> >>               .
> >>        [R.app GUI 1.35 (5665) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
> >> 
> >>> foo <- c( 4, 6, 9 ,12 )
> >>> moo <- c( 34, 37, 41, 49 )
> >>> plot( foo ~ moo )
> >> 
> >> This gives me a plot with no labels.  No "moo", "foo", or numbers under
> >> tics.  But,
> >> 
> >>> X11()
> >>> plot( foo ~ moo )
> >> 
> >> This gives me xlabel ("moo"), ylabel ("foo"), and numbers under tics.
> >> In the first case, by default, I am using quartz, while the second,
> >> obviously, I am using X11.
> >> 
> >> Does anybody know why this happens under quartz and not under X11?
> >> 
> >> Thank you.
> >> 
> >> Tena Sakai
> >> tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu
> 
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