[R-SIG-Mac] Labels not displaying in R plots

[Simon Urbanek]

David,

that is typically a sign of damaged fonts in your system. Open the Font Book (in Applications), select User and see if there are any broken fonts and remove them. You can also select fonts and run File -> Validate Font. Either way, you can compare your font configuration on both machines using Font Book.

I hope it helps.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Jun 9, 2020, at 6:37 AM, David Akin <jdakin using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey listers --
> 
> I'm a journalist and an R newbie but do I know my way around a Mac.
> 
> Got a weird problem I'm trying to troubleshoot
> 
> Both my Macbook Air and my iMac are running the same OS: Mojave 10.14.6
> 
> But each one is running different versions of R.
> 
> The iMac is running v 4.0.0 "Arbor Day"
> 
> The Macbook is running 3.6.0 "Planting of a Tree"
> 
> PROBLEM: Labels do not display in plots run on the iMac. Labels do display properly on the MacBook.
> 
> Example:
> Here's the colour wheel example from demo(topic="graphics") on the iMac. No labels.
> <image.png>
> 
> And here's the same plot as it displays on the Macbook. With Labels.
> <Image 2020-06-08 at 9.11 AM.jpg>
> 
> Looking a little closer at the fine print in the console when I fire up R, there is this line on my iMac:
> 
> [R.app GUI 1.71 (7827) x86_64-apple-darwin17.0]
> 
> But we have different version numbers on my Macbook:
> 
> [R.app GUI 1.70 (7657) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0]
> 
> Attempted the following on the iMac:
> 
> 1. Uninstalled R 4.0.0
> 2. Grab the R 3.6.3 from http://mac.r-project.org/
> 3. Installed R 3.6.3.
> 4. Ran demo(topics="Graphics") again -- and got the same result -- no labels on any plots.
> 
> Help?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Akin
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