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

[Manu N]

Thanks David,
I already read your answer on february 9
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-February/008999.html
and sent an answer saying that your advice was the correct one.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-February/009000.html

Manuel

2012/2/19 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>:
>
> 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
>