Actually, I do have an answer. I just apparently forgot to write a post on the subject. :-)
The problem is twofold. The first is that you don't have Arial on your system and the hard coded fallback font is Arial (according to a note I left to myself a problem with italics in Helvetica on 10.4 prompted the decision). The bigger problem is why you're falling back to that at all--it should be a very rare occurrence. The problem looks to be that par()$family is NULL by default which the font lookup code switches to "default". Of course, when you look at "quartzFonts()" you'll notice that it only includes valid values for par()$family which are "mono," "sans" or "serif." (Courier, Helvetica and Times-Roman respectively by default). A quick workaround is par(family="mono"). In the longer term, there appears to be a bug in the way quartz.options()$family is used (it isn't as far as I can tell) that I'm going to fix and write a patch for (probably falling back to that before falling back to Arial). On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Simon Jackman <jack...@stanford.edu> wrote: > I saw some traffic on this list last month > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-December/006921.html > > re the warnings > > no font could be found for family "Arial" > > when using a quartz device. Was this ever resolved? I'm getting the same > behavior with 2.10 (and later) but *not* when using the Urbanek/Iacus GUI > (1.32 5546 Leopard). R from a terminal window (or ESS) produces the > "text-less" graphs and warnings when using a quartz device; see the output > below. Thanks in advance for any guidance. > > Simon Jackman, Depts of Political Science & (by courtesy) Statistics, > Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6044, USA. > http://jackman.stanford.edu > >> system("uname -v") > Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; > root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 >> version > _ > platform x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 > arch x86_64 > os darwin9.8.0 > system x86_64, darwin9.8.0 > status Patched > major 2 > minor 10.1 > year 2010 > month 01 > day 06 > svn rev 50921 > language R > version.string R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-01-06 r50921) >> plot(1:10) > There were 17 warnings (use warnings() to see them) >> warnings() > Warning messages: > 1: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 2: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 3: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 4: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 5: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 6: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 7: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 8: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 9: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 10: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 11: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 12: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : > no font could be found for family "Arial" > 13: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial" > 14: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial" > 15: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial" > 16: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial" > 17: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial" >> quartz.options() > $title > [1] "Quartz %d" > > $width > [1] 7 > > $height > [1] 7 > > $pointsize > [1] 12 > > $family > [1] "Helvetica" > > $fontsmooth > [1] TRUE > > $antialias > [1] TRUE > > $type > [1] "native" > > $bg > [1] "transparent" > > $canvas > [1] "white" > > $dpi > [1] NA > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Byron Ellis (byron.el...@gmail.com) "Oook" -- The Librarian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
