Hi,
I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu 6.10 and installed R 2.4.0. When I
run eg plot.lm (things work fine with plot.default - eg
plot(rnorm(30),rnorm(30)))
plot(lmobject)
I can get the first plot and then this message:
Hit <Return> to see next plot:
Error in text.default(x, y, labels.id[ind],cex=cex, xpd=TRUE, :
could not find any X11 fonts
Check that the Font Path is correct
I have googled through the R-help list and it seems that such troubles
already occured sometimes (see link below and threads)
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-June/024091.html
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/03/23864.html
but did not find solution. Some messages claim it is a X11 problem (not
R) some others suggest it may come from R. Some also mention that UTF-8
may be a problem (though I don't have specific message on this from R).
I have re-installed x11-common via the Synaptic package manager (so I
suppose X11 is well installed) without improvement. I have checked
/etc/X11/ xorg.conf
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
Endsection
but cannot identify where the problem is actually thus no remedy.
Any idea?
Hi, I have observed this as well (Debian etch, R 2.4.0), with "small" cex values when drawing text. My LANG environment variable was set to "en_NZ.UTF-8"; setting this to "C" or "en_NZ" seems to prevent the error occuring. I presume my installation is missing a few fonts, yours may be too. HTH, Rich Setting the environment variable LANG=C before running R seems to work as a workaround (normally this is en_NZ.UTF-8 On 12/17/06, Patrick Giraudoux <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:> Hi, > > I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu 6.10 and installed R 2.4.0. When I > run eg plot.lm (things work fine with plot.default - eg > plot(rnorm(30),rnorm(30))) > > plot(lmobject) > > I can get the first plot and then this message: > > Hit <Return> to see next plot: > Error in text.default(x, y, labels.id[ind],cex=cex, xpd=TRUE, : > could not find any X11 fonts > Check that the Font Path is correct > > I have googled through the R-help list and it seems that such troubles > already occured sometimes (see link below and threads) > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-June/024091.html > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/03/23864.html > > but did not find solution. Some messages claim it is a X11 problem (not > R) some others suggest it may come from R. Some also mention that UTF-8 > may be a problem (though I don't have specific message on this from R). > I have re-installed x11-common via the Synaptic package manager (so I > suppose X11 is well installed) without improvement. I have checked > /etc/X11/ xorg.conf > > Section "Files" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > Endsection > > but cannot identify where the problem is actually thus no remedy. > > Any idea? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Rich FitzJohn rich.fitzjohn <at> gmail.com
2006/12/17, Patrick Giraudoux <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr>:> Hi, > > I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu 6.10 and installed R 2.4.0. When I > run eg plot.lm (things work fine with plot.default - eg > plot(rnorm(30),rnorm(30))) > > plot(lmobject) > > I can get the first plot and then this message: > > Hit <Return> to see next plot: > Error in text.default(x, y, labels.id[ind],cex=cex, xpd=TRUE, : > could not find any X11 fonts > Check that the Font Path is correct > > I have googled through the R-help list and it seems that such troubles > already occured sometimes (see link below and threads) > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-June/024091.html > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/03/23864.html > > but did not find solution. Some messages claim it is a X11 problem (not > R) some others suggest it may come from R. Some also mention that UTF-8 > may be a problem (though I don't have specific message on this from R). > I have re-installed x11-common via the Synaptic package manager (so I > suppose X11 is well installed) without improvement. I have checked > /etc/X11/ xorg.conf > > Section "Files" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > EndsectionYou 'll have to change the /usr/share/X11/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/X11/. I have read many having similar problems and solved them this way. The location changed so that all the fonts to be under fonts). So give it a try and I believe that it will be fine.> > but cannot identify where the problem is actually thus no remedy. > > Any idea? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >