[R-SIG-Mac] ERROR in R+Lion+X11: could not find any X11 fonts

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/01/2012 12:22, Emilio Molinari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after googling around I surrender and post to this list.

Can you please follow the posting guide and tell us your sessionInfo() 
(and are you using R.app or R, the command-line version?).

That your locale is not recognized by X11 may be significant, and 
sessionInfo() includes the locale information.

> With a Mac OS 10.7.2, R installation 2.14.1, X server starts but doesn't find the fonts.
> The solution is not to check xorgs.conf as there is no such config file here.
>
> The behavior is easily spotted:
>> plot(1,1)
> Error in axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>    could not find any X11 fonts
> Check that the Font Path is correct.
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :
>    locale not supported by Xlib: some X ops will operate in C locale
> 2: In function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :
>    X cannot set locale modifiers
>>
> R Graphics: Device 1 (ACTIVE) starts, plot one circle but stops on that error.
>
> Any help for this?
> Thank you
>
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