Hi, Oddly when I had this issue I couldn't see any obvious problems on FontBook.app - I only had one Arial, and nothing seemed to be amiss. As I said in a previous message, the problem cleared up on its own, without me knowingly doing anything (i.e. I don't need to use the family = sans trick any more).
Cheers Phil > 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. Check Arial - that is likely the font that gives you the problem. Make sure it's visible and you have only one of that name. Cheers, S > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
