[R-SIG-Mac] Fonts not working in Quartz

[Randall Tyers]

For anyone who is interested, I eventually solved the problem I was having by:

1) clearing the font cache ("sudo atsutil databases -remove" in the Terminal followed by restarting)
	which led to R generating error messages indicating that it couldn't find Arial
		(apparently, Arial (not Helvetica) is the default font for Quartz)

2) using Font Book to add the useful version of Arial back to the fonts library
	I had confirmed that I was using a functional Arial,
	    however Font Book's 'Resolve Duplicates' command had removed
	    the newer version of Arial and kept an old one that R couldn't understand

NB: for anyone trying to fix a similar problem, remember to close the Quartz window before 
replotting or your changes in the 'Font Book' won't have taken effect ;-)


On 4/09/13 16:52, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Randall Tyers wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>>
>> When I use 'plot' the labels are all missing
>
> Please see R for Mac FAQ  10.14 "I see no text in a Quartz plot!":
>
> "Typically this means that you have corrupted fonts in your system. Open the Font Book application (in Applications) and check the fonts that you are using (for example the default font in Quartz is “Helvetica”). Corrupted fonts will have no glyphs (text will not appear as it should), remove such fonts."
>
> Cheers,
> S
>
>
>
>
>> . If I set family='mono' (or 'sans' OR 'serif' then they appear). I can deal with this, even if it is a touch annoying.
>>
>> However, when I use 'boxplot', I don't get labels with the default font or if I set family='mono' (or 'sans' OR 'serif').
>>
>>> quartzFonts()
>>> $serif
>>> [1] "Times-Roman" "Times-Bold" "Times-Italic" "Times-BoldItalic"
>>>
>>> $sans
>>> [1] "Helvetica" "Helvetica-Bold" "Helvetica-Oblique" "Helvetica-BoldOblique"
>>>
>>> $mono
>>> [1] "Courier" "Courier-Bold" "Courier-Oblique" "Courier-BoldOblique"
>>
>> The help indicates that Helvetica is the default font for Quartz - obviously this is not correct - I suspect it is Arial (which has caused me problems before).
>>
>> I did look through the last two of years of the R-SIG-Mac archive but didn't find anything that helped. Is there something else I can check?
>>
>> In particular, I would be grateful if someone could provide me information on the following:
>> 1) What might be wrong with Boxplot?
>> 2) How do I figure out what the default Quartz font is?
>> 3) Any advice on fixing this font, if that is the problem? I've tried deleting duplicates in 'Font Book' to no avail ...
>>
>> Thanks so much!
>> -Randall
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (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
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_3.0.0
>>
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