Thank you very much. I found .noarch.rpm's for the first 4 of the 6 you listed below and installed them and the problem went away.
Strangely, when I tried to intstall (using rpm -Uvh) the 100 dpi ones I got a message saying that they were already installed. Nevertheless, when I restarted the X server, xlsfonts showed more fonts for the 100 dpi case (in particular, the small ones, 10 and 8) as well as the 75 dpis, which had not been there before. I don't understand that, but my problem is solved, so I am happy. Thanks again. -Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:00 PM > To: Wittner, Ben, Ph.D. > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] X11 font at size 6 could not be loaded > > Wittner, Ben, Ph.D. wrote: > > I recently upgraded my OS to Fedora 8 from Red Hat Enterprise Work > Station 3. > > Before I upgraded certain operations would produce a warning to the > effect that > > a desired font was not available so one had been substituted, which was > okay. > > After the upgrade to Fedora 8, the plotting operation halts midway > through and I > > get the following error message: > > "X11 font at size 6 could not be loaded" > > This is not okay, because plotting does not complete. > > > > I've also gotten that message regarding size 8. > > > > In R, if it do getOption("X11fonts") I get > > [1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > [2] "-adobe-symbol-medium-r-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > > > If from bash I do xlsfonts, I see that I have fonts that match, but the > smallest > > seem to be 11 points: > > -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--11-80-100-100-p-60-iso10646-1 > > -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--11-80-100-100-p-60-iso8859-1 > > > > If I run the same program on my Fedora 8 system but use an X server on a > Windows > > PC (Hummingbird X server), I have no problem. > > > > If I can't fix this, this is a disaster for me because some of the most > common > > things I do are afflicted by this problem. > > > > Can anyone help me get adobe-helvetica 6 and 8 point fonts onto my > system or > > give any other advice? > > > > Thanks very much. > > -Ben > > > > p.s., I also tried in R > > options(X11fonts="-misc-fixed-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*") > > but that resulted in > > Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1 > else > > gamma, : > > invalid 'fonts' value > > when I tried to plot. > > > > p.p.s, here's my version information > > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu > > arch i686 > > os linux-gnu > > system i686, linux-gnu > > status > > major 2 > > minor 6.1 > > year 2007 > > month 11 > > day 26 > > svn rev 43537 > > language R > > version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) > > > > > The usual suspect is that you do not have the unscalable fonts in both > 75 and 100 dpi: > > xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8 > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-3.fc8 > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8 > xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.2-3.fc8 > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-7.2-3.fc8 > xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8 > > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) > 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) > 35327907 The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
