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

[Ken Beath]

Will Restore Standard Fonts in Font Book do the same thing? Although if reinstalling the system doesn’t work I’m not certain that anything should work.

Ken

> On 17 Jun 2020, at 9:52 pm, Charlie D <charles.dimaggio using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Had the same issue. Check your mac font book utility.  In my case Arial was missing entirely. I was able to copy it from another mac I owned. Look in HDD > library > fonts. Copy and paste it to same location on the machine on which it’s missing.  Hope that helps.  
> 
> Charlie DiMaggio
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>> On 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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