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

[Emilio Molinari]

Hello Brian,

I "followed" the admin manual, and set the lines in the .bashrc
# Setting for the new UTF-8 terminal support in Lion
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

this solves the locale (and R font problem):
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

Thank you again.
Emilio




On 25 Jan , 2012, at 13:06, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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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>> 
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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)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595