Hi, I googled "os x corrupt font cache" and came up with a few hits. The top hit was: http://www.macworld.com/article/139383/2009/03/fontcacheclear.html and it suggested issuing three lines below from unix prompt: atsutil databases -removeUser atsutil server -shutdown atsutil server -ping Unfortunately, it didn't cure the problem. The above link states: "Prior to OS X 10.5, all font caches ..." The date of article is Mar 13, 2009. As I stated before, mine is 10.6.6.
Another hit was: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071026081555971 it specifically says, "10.5 Only." It is different from the previous one, but slightly messy: sudo rm -rf `lsof | grep com.apple.ATS/annex.aux \ | grep Finder | cut -c 66-139` I didn't try this one because with different rev constants like 66-139 scare me. Plus I am happy with X11() and/or adding Family="sans" in the plot(foo ~ moo). Either is good enough fix/work-around for me. Thank you for your help. Regards, Tena Sakai [email protected] On 1/19/11 3:22 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <[email protected]> wrote: > Missing labels has been reported several times, and AFAIK has always > indicated a corrupt font cache (or other problems in the font book). > There are various ways to repair that, so I'll leave you to Google for > one. > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Phillip Jardine wrote: > >> Tena, >> >> I had the same problem myself a few months ago, when I upgraded to >> OS X 10.6.5 (from OS X 10.4) I don't know why this happened, but by >> trial and error I found that putting family = "sans" into the plot >> command brought back the labels. >> >> Bizarrely though things recently started working normally again, >> with no updates/upgrades on my part. Strange, eh? >> >> Anyway, try the family = "sans" thing, it might help. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Phil >> -- >> Phil Jardine >> Geosystems Research Group >> School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences >> University of Birmingham >> Edgbaston >> Birmingham >> B15 2TT >> >> [email protected] >> Tel. 0121 414 6146 >> http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/pgpej083.shtml >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Tena Sakai [[email protected]] >> Sent: 19 January 2011 04:29 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quarts. >> >> Greetings, >> >> I have noticed a bit odd behavior of plot() on OS X 10.6.5. >> The R I downloaded from cran is R-2.12.1.pkg. Below is >> what I did: >> >> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) >> . >> . >> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5665) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0] >> >>> foo <- c( 4, 6, 9 ,12 ) >>> moo <- c( 34, 37, 41, 49 ) >>> plot( foo ~ moo ) >> >> This gives me a plot with no labels. No "moo", "foo", or numbers under >> tics. But, >> >>> X11() >>> plot( foo ~ moo ) >> >> This gives me xlabel ("moo"), ylabel ("foo"), and numbers under tics. >> In the first case, by default, I am using quartz, while the second, >> obviously, I am using X11. >> >> Does anybody know why this happens under quartz and not under X11? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Tena Sakai >> [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
