[R-SIG-Mac] R commander fonts on R 3.4.0

[Fox, John]

Dear Jose,

It's a bit difficult to respond to your latest messages because you sent so many of them.

I'm not entirely sure what's producing your font problems -- perhaps Simon will have some additional ideas -- but you should be aware that you can't load the Rcmdr package -- or, more generally, the tcltk package -- without XQuartz (or another X11 system). Normally, XQuartz should start automatically when the Rcmdr (or tcltk) package is loaded. That is, you should not have to start it separately.

It may help to know that the Rcmdr package selects its default dialog font by querying the default Tk font, via the command

	tclvalue(.Tcl("font actual TkDefaultFont -family"))

and sets the font for commands and output by querying the default Tk fixed-width font:

	tclvalue(.Tcl("font actual TkFixedFont -family"))

On my Macs, these are respectively the helvetica and courier fonts.

In any event, I'm glad that you seem to have solved your problem.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose G Conde Santiago [mailto:jose.conde1 at upr.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 3:18 PM
> To: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>; Fox, John
> <jfox at mcmaster.ca>; r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R commander fonts on R 3.4.0
> 
> When I run R without XQuartz, the text from the help screen renders
> well. I think the problem seems to be related to XQuartz.
> 
> José
> 
> 
> José G. Conde, MD, MPH
> Professor, School of Medicine
> Director, CentIT2
> UPR Medical Sciences Campus
> 
> Tel  (787) 763-9401 Fax (787) 758-5206
> 
> Email: jose.conde1 at upr.edu
> 
> URL: http://rcmi.rcm.upr.edu
> 
> > On May 15, 2017, at 2:16 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago
> <jose.conde1 at upr.edu> wrote:
> >
> > … and the same I get the same issue with R “help” screens in my iMac.
> I cannot reproduce this in the macBook.
> >
> > José
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <R help .png>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > José G. Conde, MD, MPH
> > Catedrático, Escuela de Medicina
> > Director, CentIT2
> > Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, UPR
> >
> > Tel  (787) 763-9401  Fax (787) 758-5206
> >
> > Correo electrónico: jose.conde1 at upr.edu
> >
> > URL: http://rcmi.rcm.upr.edu
> >
> >> On May 15, 2017, at 2:14 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago
> <jose.conde1 at upr.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is the actual resolutions.
> >>
> >> José
> >>
> >> <Fonts 20 points.png>
> >> José G. Conde, MD, MPH
> >> Professor, School of Medicine
> >> Director, CentIT2
> >> UPR Medical Sciences Campus
> >>
> >> Tel  (787) 763-9401 Fax (787) 758-5206
> >>
> >> Email: jose.conde1 at upr.edu
> >>
> >> URL: http://rcmi.rcm.upr.edu
> >>
> >>> On May 15, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago
> <jose.conde1 at upr.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> <Fonts 20 points.png>
> >>
> >