[R] Fedora 10 KDE plasma font rendering issue

dfermin dfermin at umich.edu
Wed Apr 1 03:36:59 CEST 2009


Nope. I checked this. Both those fonts are installed.



Martyn Plummer-2 wrote:
> 
> Quoting dfermin <dfermin at umich.edu>:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've got a new workstation running Fedora 10 linux and I use the KDE 4.2
>> desktop which uses some kind of new desktop environment called 'plasma'.
>>
>> If I start up R and generate a plot (for example: hist(rnorm(10000,
>> mean=0,
>> sd=1), breaks=100) ). The plot appears but all text (the x/y axes, title,
>> etc..) is replaced by a square box. No font is rendered at all.
>>
>> Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or a
>> solution?
>>
>> I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories if
>> that
>> helps.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
> 
> It sounds like you are missing some fonts. Check that the "urw-fonts" and
> "liberation-fonts" RPMs are installed.
> 
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