Hi Rolf, I would try using dnf (or whatever the Ubuntu equivalent is) to install the X11 fonts. You may have a GUI method for this in Ubuntu.
Jim On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Rolf Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dunno exactly whom I should ask about this problem, but I thought I'd start > with good old r-help. > > I have recently acquired a new laptop, and have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on > it. Still having some teething problems. > > If I do > > plot(1:10,ylab=expression(italic(J(r))) > > I get the error: > > Error in title(...) : > X11 font -*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 5 at size 15 could > not be loaded > > So it would seem that I am missing a font. Fonts have always been a > complete mystery to me. Can anyone suggest how I might rectify this > deficiency in the fonts on my system? If so, *please* be as explicit as you > can in your instructions; I am all at sea here. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > P. S. I have also just noticed that if I do: > > plot(1:10,ylab=expression(alpha)) > > I get an "a" as the y-axis label, rather than the Greek letter alpha. > > Likewise if I do plot(1:10,ylab=expression(Sigma)) I get a capital "S" > rather than an upper case Greek Sigma symbol. No error thrown, but. > > Any ideas as to how to fix this problem? > > For what it's worth, here is my sessionInfo(): > > R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] misc_0.0-16 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] deldir_0.1-13 Matrix_1.2-3 mgcv_1.8-12 > [4] abind_1.4-3 spatstat_1.46-1.036 rpart_4.1-10 > [7] nlme_3.1-128 grid_3.3.1 polyclip_1.5-0 > [10] lattice_0.20-33 goftest_1.0-3 tensor_1.5 > > R. T. > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
