I previously posted about this problem on the r-help list, but was told
that I
should switch over to the r-sig-fedora list. So here goes:
When trying to do a plot in a certain context I got an error:
Error in text.default(2, 6, main, cex = cex) :
X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size
16 could not be loaded
This is reproducible (in my current environment) via:
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(1:10)
text(2,6,"Oh, hell!",cex=2)
Can anyone tell me (in simple comprehensible terms, please) how I might
make the required font available so that it can be loaded? I reiterate,
please keep it simple. I find fonts toadally incomprehensible!
For what it's worth, here is my session info:
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-15 r61122)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] spatstat_1.30-0 deldir_0.0-21 mgcv_1.7-22 misc_0.0-15
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.15.2 lattice_0.20-10 Matrix_1.0-10 nlme_3.1-105
> [5] tools_2.15.2
NOTE: In response to this query on r-help I received the suggestion that
I might need to install:
xorg-x11-font-utils
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
I had xorg-x11-fonts-utils installed already, as it turned out, but
managed to
install the other two packages via
sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch
sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch
After doing that things changed a *little* bit. Instead of an error I
got a warning:> In text.default(2, 6, "Oh, hell!", cex = 2) :
> X11 used font size 25 when 28 was requested
and no actual characters appeared in the plot but rather 4 (???)
little rectangles outlined in dotted line type.
Any ideas as to how to alleviate *this* problem?
BTW my X11.options()$type is "Xlib". I tried setting it equal to
"cairo" but that
just made matters worse. Doing plot(1:10) in a fresh X11() device gave
the plot,
but with the axis labelling replaced by a few of those little
dotted-line rectangles.
Thanks for any insight and advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
peter dalgaard
2013-Jan-12 23:48 UTC
[R-sig-Fedora] Problem with X11 fonts under Fedora 17.
Rolf, Like Marc, I'm getting rusty on the Fedora details, but it's possible that the X server or the font server needs to be reset before changes take hold. Possible "xset fp rehash" in a terminal window? Or maybe "service xfs restart". -pd On Jan 12, 2013, at 23:23 , Rolf Turner wrote:> > I previously posted about this problem on the r-help list, but was told that I > should switch over to the r-sig-fedora list. So here goes: > > When trying to do a plot in a certain context I got an error: > > Error in text.default(2, 6, main, cex = cex) : > X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 16 could not be loaded > > This is reproducible (in my current environment) via: > > par(mfrow=c(2,2)) > plot(1:10) > text(2,6,"Oh, hell!",cex=2) > > Can anyone tell me (in simple comprehensible terms, please) how I might > make the required font available so that it can be loaded? I reiterate, > please keep it simple. I find fonts toadally incomprehensible! > > For what it's worth, here is my session info: > > sessionInfo() > > R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-15 r61122) > > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > > > locale: > > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > > other attached packages: > > [1] spatstat_1.30-0 deldir_0.0-21 mgcv_1.7-22 misc_0.0-15 > > > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] grid_2.15.2 lattice_0.20-10 Matrix_1.0-10 nlme_3.1-105 > > [5] tools_2.15.2 > > NOTE: In response to this query on r-help I received the suggestion that > I might need to install: > > xorg-x11-font-utils > xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi > xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi > > I had xorg-x11-fonts-utils installed already, as it turned out, but managed to > install the other two packages via > > sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch > sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch > > After doing that things changed a *little* bit. Instead of an error I got a warning: >> In text.default(2, 6, "Oh, hell!", cex = 2) : >> X11 used font size 25 when 28 was requested > and no actual characters appeared in the plot but rather 4 (???) > little rectangles outlined in dotted line type. > > Any ideas as to how to alleviate *this* problem? > > BTW my X11.options()$type is "Xlib". I tried setting it equal to "cairo" but that > just made matters worse. Doing plot(1:10) in a fresh X11() device gave the plot, > but with the axis labelling replaced by a few of those little dotted-line rectangles. > > Thanks for any insight and advice. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > R-SIG-Fedora at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora-- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com