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

J Greenbaum jgb@um @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sat Jun 20 17:13:12 CEST 2020 

Someone mentioned I should post my session info as well.  So here it is.
Hopefully it's helpful...

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

Matrix products: default
BLAS:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.1
There were 42 warnings (use warnings() to see them)

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:50 AM J Greenbaum <jgbaum using gmail.com> wrote:

> Still struggling with this and can't figure out how to prevent my fonts
> from disappearing.  The workaround sometimes works, but sometimes I also
> have to reboot and/or open Font Book.  I can't determine exactly how to
> consistently bring back my fonts, or why they are disappearing in the first
> place.  Any suggestions?
>
> Bob, in response to your suggestion I installed the 'extrafont' package
> and noticed a few warnings when I ran 'font_import' which may or may not be
> relevant.  Here are a few:
>
> 40: In grepl("^Weight", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 41: In grepl("^FamilyName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this
> locale
> 42: In grepl("^FontName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 43: In grepl("^FullName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 44: In grepl("^Weight", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 45: In grepl("^FamilyName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this
> locale
> 46: In grepl("^FontName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 47: In grepl("^FullName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 48: In grepl("^Weight", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 49: In grepl("^FamilyName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this
> locale
> 50: In grepl("^FontName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
>
> And here is the output of the second command (cleaner formatting here:
> https://pastebin.com/FCAYq7ym):
>
> > subset(extrafont::fonttable(), grepl("Arial", FontName))
>    package                         afmfile
> 20      NA              Arial Black.afm.gz
> 21      NA        Arial Bold Italic.afm.gz
> 22      NA               Arial Bold.afm.gz
> 23      NA             Arial Italic.afm.gz
> 24      NA                    Arial.afm.gz
> 25      NA             Arial Narrow.afm.gz
> 26      NA        Arial Narrow Bold.afm.gz
> 27      NA Arial Narrow Bold Italic.afm.gz
> 28      NA      Arial Narrow Italic.afm.gz
> 29      NA       Arial Rounded Bold.afm.gz
> 30      NA            Arial Unicode.afm.gz
>                                                           fontfile
> 20              /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Black.ttf
> 21        /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold Italic.ttf
> 22               /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold.ttf
> 23             /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Italic.ttf
> 24                    /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial.ttf
> 25             /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow.ttf
> 26        /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
> 27 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
> 28      /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
> 29       /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
> 30            /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Unicode.ttf
>                    FullName            FamilyName               FontName
>  Bold
> 20              Arial Black           Arial Black            Arial-Black
> FALSE
> 21        Arial Bold Italic                 Arial     Arial-BoldItalicMT
>  TRUE
> 22               Arial Bold                 Arial           Arial-BoldMT
>  TRUE
> 23             Arial Italic                 Arial         Arial-ItalicMT
> FALSE
> 24                    Arial                 Arial                ArialMT
> FALSE
> 25             Arial Narrow          Arial Narrow            ArialNarrow
> FALSE
> 26        Arial Narrow Bold          Arial Narrow       ArialNarrow-Bold
>  TRUE
> 27 Arial Narrow Bold Italic          Arial Narrow ArialNarrow-BoldItalic
>  TRUE
> 28      Arial Narrow Italic          Arial Narrow     ArialNarrow-Italic
> FALSE
> 29    Arial Rounded MT Bold Arial Rounded MT Bold     ArialRoundedMTBold
> FALSE
> 30         Arial Unicode MS      Arial Unicode MS         ArialUnicodeMS
> FALSE
>    Italic Symbol afmsymfile
> 20  FALSE  FALSE         NA
> 21   TRUE  FALSE         NA
> 22  FALSE  FALSE         NA
> 23   TRUE  FALSE         NA
> 24  FALSE  FALSE         NA
> 25  FALSE  FALSE         NA
> 26  FALSE  FALSE         NA
> 27   TRUE  FALSE         NA
> 28   TRUE  FALSE         NA
> 29  FALSE  FALSE         NA
> 30  FALSE  FALSE         NA
>
> Thanks again,
>
> J
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:40 AM J Greenbaum <jgbaum using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all of the feedback so far.  I was able to get it to work
>> temporarily by shutting down R, issuing 'sudo atsutil databases
>> -remove', then starting R again. Strangely though, when I started R this
>> morning the issue returned. Going through the same process brings back my
>> fonts. Not sure why the fix lasts only temporarily, but happy to have this
>> workaround for now...
>>
>> -J
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:52 AM Ken Beath <ken using kjbeath.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> >
>>> > Sent from my iPad
>>> >
>>> >> 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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