2006/12/17, Patrick Giraudoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu 6.10 and installed R 2.4.0. When I > run eg plot.lm (things work fine with plot.default - eg > plot(rnorm(30),rnorm(30))) > > plot(lmobject) > > I can get the first plot and then this message: > > Hit <Return> to see next plot: > Error in text.default(x, y, labels.id[ind],cex=cex, xpd=TRUE, : > could not find any X11 fonts > Check that the Font Path is correct > > I have googled through the R-help list and it seems that such troubles > already occured sometimes (see link below and threads) > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-June/024091.html > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/03/23864.html > > but did not find solution. Some messages claim it is a X11 problem (not > R) some others suggest it may come from R. Some also mention that UTF-8 > may be a problem (though I don't have specific message on this from R). > I have re-installed x11-common via the Synaptic package manager (so I > suppose X11 is well installed) without improvement. I have checked > /etc/X11/ xorg.conf > > Section "Files" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > Endsection
You 'll have to change the /usr/share/X11/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/X11/. I have read many having similar problems and solved them this way. The location changed so that all the fonts to be under fonts). So give it a try and I believe that it will be fine. > > but cannot identify where the problem is actually thus no remedy. > > Any idea? > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > 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 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.
