Evan Cooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings - > > Users of the box I'm putting together will need to be able to run R > remotely, using a virtual desktop. One approach (that I'm trying) is to > use VNC. So far, I can get the remote gnome desktop up on the server > (running Fedora Core 5), and can start R from a terminal. However, for a > lot of the R scripts I've tried, I get 'font errors' - the general error > message is > > Error in X11() : could not find any X11 fonts > Check that the Font Path is correct > > > OK, bring up another terminal window on VNC, and try xset q, which shows > > Font Path > > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/, /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/, > /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/, ... > > and so on, and so on - about 10 different font directories in all. > > So, given that xset q shows that I have lots of X11 fonts in the Font > Path, then why does X11() in R tell me I don't have any?
I don't think xset q is the right diagnostic tool. I suspect that it just reflects a default setting of vnc. Those directories could be empty for all that it knows. xfontsel might be more to the point if you need to know whether the fonts are actually available. However, I can't reproduce similar behaviour on FC5 with the straightforward vncserver/vncviewer/twm default setup (i.e., it runs demo(graphics)). So I suspect you need to dig deeper or tell us more details about what goes wrong, e.g. how exactly are you running your R scripts, will they work from the console, etc. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel