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no font could be found for family "Arial"

2 messages · emmats, Brian Ripley

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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?

Thank you!
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Please do read the posting guide: what OS, what version of R, what 
graphics device ....

At a guess this was Mac OS X (and this was the wrong list) and you 
need to repair your Mac OS fonts. There are threads on R-sig-mac about 
that every couple of months, including this month.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, emmats wrote: