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

[Jose G Conde Santiago]

Hello, John.

Thanks for the information and (all) for your patience. Unfortunately I am not that familiar with the inner workings of R. I just went back to R 3.3.3 for now.

José

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 5:17 PM, Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>>>> 
>>> 
>