Someone mentioned I should post my session info as well. So here it is.
Hopefully it's helpful...
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
Matrix products: default
BLAS:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.1
There were 42 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:50 AM J Greenbaum <jgb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Still struggling with this and can't figure out how to prevent my fonts
> from disappearing. The workaround sometimes works, but sometimes I also
> have to reboot and/or open Font Book. I can't determine exactly how to
> consistently bring back my fonts, or why they are disappearing in the first
> place. Any suggestions?
>
> Bob, in response to your suggestion I installed the 'extrafont' package
> and noticed a few warnings when I ran 'font_import' which may or may not be
> relevant. Here are a few:
>
> 40: In grepl("^Weight", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 41: In grepl("^FamilyName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this
> locale
> 42: In grepl("^FontName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 43: In grepl("^FullName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 44: In grepl("^Weight", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 45: In grepl("^FamilyName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this
> locale
> 46: In grepl("^FontName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 47: In grepl("^FullName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 48: In grepl("^Weight", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
> 49: In grepl("^FamilyName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this
> locale
> 50: In grepl("^FontName", text) : input string 4 is invalid in this locale
>
> And here is the output of the second command (cleaner formatting here:
> https://pastebin.com/FCAYq7ym):
>
> > subset(extrafont::fonttable(), grepl("Arial", FontName))
> package afmfile
> 20 NA Arial Black.afm.gz
> 21 NA Arial Bold Italic.afm.gz
> 22 NA Arial Bold.afm.gz
> 23 NA Arial Italic.afm.gz
> 24 NA Arial.afm.gz
> 25 NA Arial Narrow.afm.gz
> 26 NA Arial Narrow Bold.afm.gz
> 27 NA Arial Narrow Bold Italic.afm.gz
> 28 NA Arial Narrow Italic.afm.gz
> 29 NA Arial Rounded Bold.afm.gz
> 30 NA Arial Unicode.afm.gz
> fontfile
> 20 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Black.ttf
> 21 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold Italic.ttf
> 22 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold.ttf
> 23 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Italic.ttf
> 24 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial.ttf
> 25 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow.ttf
> 26 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
> 27 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
> 28 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
> 29 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
> 30 /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Unicode.ttf
> FullName FamilyName FontName
> Bold
> 20 Arial Black Arial Black Arial-Black
> FALSE
> 21 Arial Bold Italic Arial Arial-BoldItalicMT
> TRUE
> 22 Arial Bold Arial Arial-BoldMT
> TRUE
> 23 Arial Italic Arial Arial-ItalicMT
> FALSE
> 24 Arial Arial ArialMT
> FALSE
> 25 Arial Narrow Arial Narrow ArialNarrow
> FALSE
> 26 Arial Narrow Bold Arial Narrow ArialNarrow-Bold
> TRUE
> 27 Arial Narrow Bold Italic Arial Narrow ArialNarrow-BoldItalic
> TRUE
> 28 Arial Narrow Italic Arial Narrow ArialNarrow-Italic
> FALSE
> 29 Arial Rounded MT Bold Arial Rounded MT Bold ArialRoundedMTBold
> FALSE
> 30 Arial Unicode MS Arial Unicode MS ArialUnicodeMS
> FALSE
> Italic Symbol afmsymfile
> 20 FALSE FALSE NA
> 21 TRUE FALSE NA
> 22 FALSE FALSE NA
> 23 TRUE FALSE NA
> 24 FALSE FALSE NA
> 25 FALSE FALSE NA
> 26 FALSE FALSE NA
> 27 TRUE FALSE NA
> 28 TRUE FALSE NA
> 29 FALSE FALSE NA
> 30 FALSE FALSE NA
>
> Thanks again,
>
> J
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:40 AM J Greenbaum <jgb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all of the feedback so far. I was able to get it to work
>> temporarily by shutting down R, issuing 'sudo atsutil databases
>> -remove', then starting R again. Strangely though, when I started R this
>> morning the issue returned. Going through the same process brings back my
>> fonts. Not sure why the fix lasts only temporarily, but happy to have this
>> workaround for now...
>>
>> -J
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:52 AM Ken Beath <k...@kjbeath.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Will Restore Standard Fonts in Font Book do the same thing? Although if
>>> reinstalling the system doesn’t work I’m not certain that anything should
>>> work.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> > On 17 Jun 2020, at 9:52 pm, Charlie D <charles.dimag...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > 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
>>> >>
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