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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/01/2012 12:47, Emilio Molinari wrote:
> Sorry for the hurry I put before..
> Here it is:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C

I think that is wrong: there is no locale called 'UTF-8' in standard 
naming schemes.  I have
[1] C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

See the 'R Installation and Administration Manual' (and please keep 
R-sig-mac on the reply list).


> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] kohonen_2.0.9 MASS_7.3-16   class_7.3-3
>>
>
> and, I am Running R in command line.
> thank you.
> emilio
>
>
> On 25 Jan , 2012, at 12:32, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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