Practically all PostScript interpreters out there either include the 13
standard fonts

  - Times (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  - Helvetica (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique)
  - Courier (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique)
  - Symbol

(listed in Appendix E of the PostScript Language Reference Manual) or
are automatically able to map these to equivalent and compatible
alternative fonts. This has been common practice for nearly three
decades now.

So I think it is inappropriate for dvips to attempt to map one the above
13 standard PostScript fonts, or complain about there use. This is
clearly the job of the PostScript interpreter later in the pipeline.

So this bug report is in my opinion very clearly an issue with dvips,
not a bug with R (or with any of the other thousands of EPS-generating
tools out there that rely on the recipient to know the standard
PostScript). Please reassign it back to texlive-base.

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  Font Helvetica is not in the mapping file.

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