R help - Mar 2009 - Fedora 10 KDE plasma font rendering issue

Hello.

I've got a new workstation running Fedora 10 linux and I use the KDE 4.2
desktop which uses some kind of new desktop environment called 'plasma'.

If I start up R and generate a plot (for example: hist(rnorm(10000, mean=0,
sd=1), breaks=100) ). The plot appears but all text (the x/y axes, title,
etc..) is replaced by a square box. No font is rendered at all.

Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or a
solution?

I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories if that
helps.

Thanks in advance. 

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Quoting dfermin <dfermin at umich.edu>:
>
> Hello.
>
> I've got a new workstation running Fedora 10 linux and I use the KDE
4.2
> desktop which uses some kind of new desktop environment called
'plasma'.
>
> If I start up R and generate a plot (for example: hist(rnorm(10000, mean=0,
> sd=1), breaks=100) ). The plot appears but all text (the x/y axes, title,
> etc..) is replaced by a square box. No font is rendered at all.
>
> Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or a
> solution?
>
> I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories if
that
> helps.
>
> Thanks in advance.
It sounds like you are missing some fonts. Check that the "urw-fonts"
and
"liberation-fonts" RPMs are installed.



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On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:02:23 dfermin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've got a new workstation running Fedora 10 linux and I use the KDE
4.2
> desktop which uses some kind of new desktop environment called
'plasma'.
>
> If I start up R and generate a plot (for example: hist(rnorm(10000, mean=0,
> sd=1), breaks=100) ). The plot appears but all text (the x/y axes, title,
> etc..) is replaced by a square box. No font is rendered at all.
>
> Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or a
> solution?
What graphics card do you have?

I saw recently reports about this happening on grace when using intel graphic 
cards. I am starting to suspect that this could be the same problem.
> I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories if
that
> helps.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Jos? Ab?lio

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:02:23 -0700 (PDT) dfermin <dfermin at umich.edu>
wrote:

D> Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or
D> a solution?
D> 
D> I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories
D> if that helps.

I have Fedora 10 and R 2.8.1 as well and have no problems. On KDE I see
the text in the histogram plot. 

R has been updated quite some times recently. Have you ensured you have
the latest package installed via yum?

Stefan