Re: [R] problem with labeling plots, possibly in font defaults

2014-08-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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,

Re: [R] problem with labeling plots, possibly in font defaults

2014-08-07 Thread David Winsemius
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 pl

[R] problem with labeling plots, possibly in font defaults

2014-08-07 Thread Tim Blass
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 numbe