Bingo, Simon. Thanks. Running Validate Font on all my fonts on my iMac did indeed result in "Warnings and Errors" that there were duplicates -- including key 'default' fonts like Arial and Palatino.
Some of those fonts were in: ~/Library/Fonts/ Duplicates were in: /Users/*username*/Library/Fonts/ The directory on my iMac: /Users/*username*/Library/Fonts/ is chock full of fonts. Notably: In my MacBook, the directory: /Users/*username*/Library/Fonts/ - has not got a single file in it! So back on my iMac, I removed the duplicate fonts in the /Users/*username*/Library/Fonts/ directory. And, firing up R, running demo=(topic="graphics") -- I am now seeing labels! Just to close this off then -- where does R look for font information when it goes to plot something? On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:51 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > David, > > that is typically a sign of damaged fonts in your system. Open the Font > Book (in Applications), select User and see if there are any broken fonts > and remove them. You can also select fonts and run File -> Validate Font. > Either way, you can compare your font configuration on both machines using > Font Book. > > I hope it helps. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > > On Jun 9, 2020, at 6:37 AM, David Akin <jda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey listers -- > > > > I'm a journalist and an R newbie but do I know my way around a Mac. > > > > Got a weird problem I'm trying to troubleshoot > > > > Both my Macbook Air and my iMac are running the same OS: Mojave 10.14.6 > > > > But each one is running different versions of R. > > > > The iMac is running v 4.0.0 "Arbor Day" > > > > The Macbook is running 3.6.0 "Planting of a Tree" > > > > PROBLEM: Labels do not display in plots run on the iMac. Labels do > display properly on the MacBook. > > > > Example: > > Here's the colour wheel example from demo(topic="graphics") on the iMac. > No labels. > > <image.png> > > > > And here's the same plot as it displays on the Macbook. With Labels. > > <Image 2020-06-08 at 9.11 AM.jpg> > > > > Looking a little closer at the fine print in the console when I fire up > R, there is this line on my iMac: > > > > [R.app GUI 1.71 (7827) x86_64-apple-darwin17.0] > > > > But we have different version numbers on my Macbook: > > > > [R.app GUI 1.70 (7657) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0] > > > > Attempted the following on the iMac: > > > > 1. Uninstalled R 4.0.0 > > 2. Grab the R 3.6.3 from http://mac.r-project.org/ > > 3. Installed R 3.6.3. > > 4. Ran demo(topics="Graphics") again -- and got the same result -- no > labels on any plots. > > > > Help? > > > > > > > > -- > > David Akin > > ------------------- > > http://www.davidakin.com > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > -- David Akin ------------------- http://www.davidakin.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
