See
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#I-see-no-text-in-a-Quartz-plot_0021
And the default font is not serif ... that FAQ says it is Arial, but I
do not know if that is current.
Mac-specific questions to R-sig-mac please. (This must be Mac-specific
as the default device, quartz(), is.)
On 07/08/2014 23:24, David Winsemius wrote:
On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Tim Blass wrote:
Hello,
I am using R 3.1.1 on a (four year old) MacBook, running OSX 10.9.4.
I just tried making and labeling a plot as follows:
x<-rnorm(10)
y<-rnorm(10)
plot(x,y)
title(main="random points")
which produces a scatter plot of the random points, but without the title
and without any numbers along the axes. If I then run
par(family="sans")
plot(x,y,main="plot title")
the plot has the title and the numbers on the axes (also and 'x' and 'y'
appear as default labels for the axes).
I do not know what is going on, but maybe there is some problem in the
default font settings (I don't know if that could be an R issue or an issue
specific to my Mac)?
It hasn't happened to me recently (since updating from Leopard and SnowLeapard
to Lion) but it used to happen pretty frequently that I would get a duplicate
font that printed empty square boxes. (I wasn't the only one. It got reported
several times on R-SIG-Mac.) One could fix that sort of problem by deleting
the offending duplicate entry using Font Book.app
Since this is happening with the default serif font, you would probably find
the duplicate in Times. (It used to be happening to me with Symbol.)
quartzFonts()$serif
[1] "Times-Roman" "Times-Bold" "Times-Italic" "Times-BoldItalic"
This is clearly not a big problem (at least for now) since I can put labels
on plots by running par(), but if it is indicative of a larger underlying
problem (or if there is a simple fix) I would like to know.
Thank you!
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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