Hi Jim, The family="sans" trick works for me as well. It looks like this could be some kind of issue specific to 10.6 then, as I'm running 10.6.4. I agree that it would be nice to find the root cause of this, but your workaround is good.
Thanks again to everyone who has offered suggestions, Adrian 2010/9/5 Phillip Jardine <pej...@bham.ac.uk> > Hi Adrian, > > Just to let you know I experienced exactly the same problem a couple of > weeks ago, after upgrading my operating system from 10.4 to 10.6. I also > couldn't find any duplicate fonts using FontBook. I've found that specifying > family = "sans" in the plotting command, i.e.: > > plot(x, y, family = "sans") > > Gets the text on the graphs in Helvetica (the default setting). It's not a > proper fix, but it does work! > > Cheers, > > Phil > -- > Phil Jardine > Geosystems Research Group > School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences > University of Birmingham > Edgbaston > Birmingham > B15 2TT > > pej...@bham.ac.uk > Tel. 0121 414 6146 > http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/pgpej083.shtml > ________________________________________ > From: r-sig-mac-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch [ > r-sig-mac-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Adrian [ > adrian.d...@duke.edu] > Sent: 05 September 2010 10:25 > To: David Winsemius > Cc: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Text will not appear on any graph > > Interesting... apparently I'm printing to a "null device": > > > dev.cur() > null device > 1 > > Adrian > > 2010/9/5 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > > > > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Adrian wrote: > > > > Thanks again for the suggestions thus far. In response: > >> > >> 1) I did enter the quartzFonts() command, and I received what I assume > to > >> be > >> the expected output: > >> > >>> quartzFonts() > >>> > >> $serif > >> [1] "Times-Roman" "Times-Bold" "Times-Italic" > >> [4] "Times-BoldItalic" > >> > >> $sans > >> [1] "Helvetica" "Helvetica-Bold" > >> [3] "Helvetica-Oblique" "Helvetica-BoldOblique" > >> > >> $mono > >> [1] "Courier" "Courier-Bold" "Courier-Oblique" > >> [4] "Courier-BoldOblique" > >> > >> 2) If I output my plots directly to a pdf file, the text is included > just > >> fine. If I run identical commands to be output to the default device, > no > >> text is displayed. This seems to indicate that it could be some kind of > >> problem with the Quartz device? > >> > > > > Assuming that the quartz device is the current device that is. What does > > dev.cur() return? > > > > -- > > David > > > > > >> 3) The output that I received from the par() command after plotting a > >> graph > >> (with no tex) is identical to that received from another user who is > able > >> to > >> see text graphs. > >> > >> Ultimately, it would be good to determine and fix the root cause of this > >> problem, as it would be convenient to be able to view graphs immediately > >> upon generating them. However, outputting to a PDF file gives me a good > >> workaround for the moment. > >> > >> Thanks again, > >> Adrian > >> > >> 2010/9/4 Susan Gruber <sgru...@berkeley.edu> > >> > >> 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> [[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 > >> > > > > 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 > [[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
