Hi Jari, > it will probably also bug you elsewhere than in R graphics.
Yes, an excellent point. I might as well fix it for good. I gave a quick look at FontBook.app, but I didn't get intuitive feel as to how to fix my problem. I will spend more time on FontBook.app in a day or two. Thank you. Regards, Tena Sakai [email protected] On 1/20/11 12:59 AM, "Jari Oksanen" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 23:26 -0800, Tena Sakai wrote: >> 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. > > Tena, > > If it is corrupted font cache, it will probably also bug you elsewhere > than in R graphics. I have once solved this problem in my wife's iMac > when she was unable to print Word documents from her job. After googling > around, I finally used FontBook.app which is a standard graphical MacOS > application installed with your OS in the Applications folder. It was > able to find and remove duplicated fonts and check the integrity of the > font files. Took some time, but worked. > > Cheers, Jari Oksanen > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
