[R-SIG-Mac] No labels in plots - none of the solutions that I've come across have worked

[Bob Rudis]

What does the output of:

    extrafont::font_import()
    subset(extrafont::fonttable(), grepl("Arial", FontName))

say about Arial? (you may need to install.packages("extrafont"))

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:00 AM J Greenbaum <jgbaum using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having what appears to be a relatively common problem in R under macOS
> in that text is not displaying in my plots.  This used to work just fine
> for me, and still does on my other machines, except for my laptop (MBP
> 16).  The issue seemed to coincide with my upgrade to 10.15.5.
>
> When plotting, I get warnings similar to:
>
> no font could be found for family "Arial"
>
> I've tried every solution that I've come across on this issue including
> finding duplicate fonts in 'Font Book', ensuring they all validate
> properly, and I've even gone nuclear and completely reinstalled my OS!
> I've tried installing the official R package as well as the homebrew R
> package.  I've also validated it's not my user account by reproducing the
> issue under different accounts. Nothing works.
>
> I would love some help in tracking this issue down.  Any insight would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -J
>
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