On 01/13/2013 04:36 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
Tried to do a plot just now and 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)
This is of course not the real context in which the error originally
manifested itself. The "real context" triggered no such problems
until I started messing about trying to solve the "inconsolata" font
problem that I posted about recently.
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!
Note that I did as I was advised and installed texlive-2012 for Fedora 17
following the instructions detailed in the website that was given (and which
I cited in my previous email). Didn't help a bit.
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
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Been a while (years) since I have seen that error message on the lists, but if
memory serves, it was typically because you are missing certain X11 fonts. More
info in the relevant manual:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#X11-issues
>From a quick review you probably need to install:
xorg-x11-font-utils (you may already have this)
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
Since I have not used Fedora in several years now, my knowledge base may be a
bit dated.
Some of this is likely because of the narrower selection of default RPM
packages that are installed these days when you install F17 and some due to
compiling R from source rather than considering using the pre-existing binary R
RPM that the Fedora folks provide (eg. sudo yum install R), which would have
solved various RPM dependencies upon installation. Of course, the binary would
be released versions (eg. 2.15.2) rather than R patched.
BTW Rolf, I don't think that any prior replies have mentioned this, but Fedora
specific queries really should be posted over on r-sig-fedora:
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
That would avail you of a Fedora specific audience, including Fedora/Red Hat
maintainers/engineers like Tom Callaway.
Okay, thanks. I shall transfer this discussion over to r-sig-fedora.
For the record I did indeed have xorg-x11-font-utils already installed.
I got the
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi and xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi packages via
sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch
and
sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch
However when I tried my toy example I got the warning message:
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.
So some progress, but not there yet.
cheers,
Rolf
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