I don't have a solution, but you may get another clue to where the problem lies if you send the plot directly to a file, and see whether the text shows up there.
pdf() # your plot commands here dev.off() Then look at Rplots.pdf in your working directory. --Susan > Hello, > > Thank you for the suggestions thus far. In response: > > No plotting command includes text, even if it is explicitly specified with > the "xlab", "ylab", or "main" commands. For example: > plot(1:10, xlab="foo", main="bar") > produces a graph with no text on either axis, no numerical labels, and no > title. > > As for David's suggestion, this looks similar to a post that I found > online: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.mac/5489. I looked > through my font book and did not find any duplicate fonts. Just to be > sure, > I selected all of the fonts and did a "resolve duplicates" operation under > the Font Book edit menu. Still no text on any graphs though. > > Thanks again, > Adrian > > 2010/9/4 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > >> >> On Sep 4, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Adrian wrote: >> >> Hello, >>> >>> I am having trouble displaying graphs in R. Whenever I create graphs, >>> no >>> axes labels, numerical scales, or titles are displayed. If I use the >>> "text()" function to explicitly add text to the graph, no text is >>> displayed. >>> I can see all of the graphs using the "demo(graphics)" command, but >>> none >>> of >>> the graphs include any text. I am running R version: R 2.11.1 GUI 1.34 >>> Leopard build 32-bit (5589) on Mac OS 10.6.4. I would be happy to >>> provide >>> any further information that could be useful in diagnosing this >>> problem. >>> Any advice is appreciated. >>> >> >> Your font library has probably become corrupted. Use Font Book.app to >> look >> at Times, Courier, Helvetica and Symbol and remove any duplicate entries >> that are blank. >> >> -- >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> West Hartford, CT >> >> > > [[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 > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac