[R-SIG-Mac] Lion, Quartz and text issue

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 6, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Manu N wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm running R.app on Mac OS X.7.3.
> I have an issue :
>
>> a = c(1,2,3)
>> plot(a)
>
> produces a plot on a quartz window but without any text (labels,   
> etc.)

This has been reported multiple times on this list. It generally  
means  fonts used by that device have been corrupted. In this case you  
should look to see what quartzFonts()  produces and if the missing  
text was the "sans" flavor:

 > quartzFonts("sans")
$sans
[1] "Helvetica"             "Helvetica-Bold"        "Helvetica-Oblique"
[4] "Helvetica-BoldOblique"

Use Font Book.app to investigate. If I'm right, you will find a  
(possibly duplicated) blank version for Helvetica. Delete it.

-- 
David.
>
>> a = c(1,2,3)
>> pdf("/Users/myhome/Desktop/test.pdf")
>> plot(a)
>> dev.off()
>
> produces the expected pdf file with axis labels, x values and y  
> values.
>
> Here's some info on my system :
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>> 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"
>
>
> Do you have any idea on what could cause this issue ?
> Thanks,
> Manuel
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT