[R-SIG-Mac] labels on plots

[Carl Witthoft]

You sure you don't have a font or fontsize missing?  Or possibly a 
screen resolution-setting mismatch?

On 6/8/20 5:11 PM, r-sig-mac-request using r-project.org wrote:

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>     1.  Labels not displaying in R plots (David Akin)
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> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 14:37:46 -0400
> From: David Akin <jdakin using gmail.com>
> To: r-sig-mac using r-project.org
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Labels not displaying in R plots
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> 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"
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> 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: image.png]
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> And here's the same plot as it displays on the Macbook. With Labels.
> [image: 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?
> 
> 
> 

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Carl Witthoft
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