[R] no font could be found for family "Arial"

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 6, 2012, at 2:01 AM, tibr wrote:

> I hope the original poster fixed this a long time ago, but I had the  
> same
> problem and here is how I fixed it:
>
> - go to the application Fontbook
> - check if the Arial font has duplicates, and delete them, even if  
> they are
> set to "Off"
> - restart the computer.

Which you would have found with a search of the SIG-Mac list had you  
followed the advice that Prof. Ripley gave at the time. I do not  
delete both copies of the duplicated fonts when this has occurred on  
my machine ... only the ones that were defective.


> emmats wrote
>>
>> I was re-running some code that I hadn't run in a couple of months  
>> to make
>> barplots in R.  I didn't change a single thing in the script, but the
>> plots wouldn't work this time around.  The plot itself (the bars  
>> and axes)
>> will graph in the window, but no text appears.  In the console it  
>> says I
>> have a number of errors, all of which say "no font could be found for
>> family 'Arial'".
>> I have not knowingly changed anything in R and I would like to be  
>> able to
>> make barplots with labels and titles again.  Does anyone know how  
>> to fix
>> this?
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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