Had the same issue. Check your mac font book utility. In my case Arial was missing entirely. I was able to copy it from another mac I owned. Look in HDD > library > fonts. Copy and paste it to same location on the machine on which it’s missing. Hope that helps.
Charlie DiMaggio Sent from my iPad > On Jun 17, 2020, at 2:00 AM, J Greenbaum <jgb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm having what appears to be a relatively common problem in R under macOS > in that text is not displaying in my plots. This used to work just fine > for me, and still does on my other machines, except for my laptop (MBP > 16). The issue seemed to coincide with my upgrade to 10.15.5. > > When plotting, I get warnings similar to: > > no font could be found for family "Arial" > > I've tried every solution that I've come across on this issue including > finding duplicate fonts in 'Font Book', ensuring they all validate > properly, and I've even gone nuclear and completely reinstalled my OS! > I've tried installing the official R package as well as the homebrew R > package. I've also validated it's not my user account by reproducing the > issue under different accounts. Nothing works. > > I would love some help in tracking this issue down. Any insight would be > much appreciated. > > Thank you! > > -J > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
