On Jan 7, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Byron Ellis wrote: > 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
Ah-hah I do have Arial on the system. In fact, Fontbook reports finding as many as 4 Arial ttf/otf files (for reasons best described as idiosyncratic). At some point I used Fontbook to "resolve duplicates" for a number of my typefaces. I see now that this disabled /Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf. After a little experimentation I found that re-activating this instance of Arial solved the issue. Nonetheless, it is still interesting as to why Arial is being sought at all Thanks for your help. Simon > 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 Simon Jackman, Depts of Political Science & (by courtesy) Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6044, USA. http://jackman.stanford.edu Director, Political Science Computational Lab. http://pscl.stanford.edu cell: +1 (650) 387 3019 fax: +1 (650) 724-9095 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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