Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-21 Thread Phillip Jardine
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 a

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Tena Sakai wrote: > 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. Chec

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-20 Thread Tena Sakai
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.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-20 Thread Jari Oksanen
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 dat

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Tena Sakai
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 -p

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I re-read the OP, and Ripley is right (as usual) (damnit :) What seals the deal for me is that both x- and y-labels are missing. Kasper On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > >> This _may_ be unrelated to a corrupt font ca

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: This _may_ be unrelated to a corrupt font cache. Note that the OP says the issue is fixed by resizing the quartz screen. To see this in action (explanation below) I have posted http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~khansen/screen1.png (the initial look

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
This _may_ be unrelated to a corrupt font cache. Note that the OP says the issue is fixed by resizing the quartz screen. To see this in action (explanation below) I have posted http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~khansen/screen1.png (the initial look of the quartz window) http://www.biostat.jhsph.e

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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 myse