On May 12, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
In R versions before 3.4.0 we were shipping our own version of fontconfig which was using the following font directories
--with-default-fonts=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts --with-add-fonts="/System/Library/Fonts,/Library/Fonts,~/Library/Fonts"
As of R 3.4.0 we are using fontconfig from XQuartz (since they started diverging from our version and thus causing issues) so it's now entirely up to the standard font configuration in XQuartz. So my guess would be that you may have some fonts in your private font library which is not configured - possibly in ~/Library/Fonts. As far as I can tell XQuartz uses all of the above except for ~/Library/Fonts so you may need to either install the fonts your want at system level or change your fontconfig configuration to include your private font library. See fc-list to list all your fonts that fontconfig knows about.
Cheers,
Simon
On May 9, 2017, at 9:52 PM, Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
Dear David,
Jose and I corresponded earlier today, and I can?t duplicate his problem
on two MacBook Pros, both with apparently the same setup as Jose?s: macOS
Sierra, R 3.4.0, Rcmdr 2.3-2, and XQuartz 2.7.11 (i.e., all current
versions).
If the problem were with availability of X11 fonts, why would the fonts
appear properly for him with R 3.3.3 but not R 3.4.0?
I thought that someone more familiar with Macs than I am might spot the
cause of the problem from Jose?s screenshot, and so I suggested that he
write to the R-SIG-Mac list.
Best,
John
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John Fox, Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Web: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
On 2017-05-09, 6:45 PM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of David Winsemius"
<r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:
On May 9, 2017, at 3:08 PM, Jose G Conde Santiago via R-SIG-Mac
<r-sig-mac at r-project.org> wrote:
Hello,
I recently upgraded to R 3.4.0, but now I get very poor fonts from
Rcmdr 2.3-2 as shown below:
<Dialog.png>
I'm not an Rcmdr user but I tried bringing a current version up. (I
included a request to install Rcmdr with all dependencies but X11
complained that aplpack was missing and that needed to be installed as
well.) Seems you don't like teh proportionally space serif font you are
seeing which was different than what I saw. Think you might want to show
what this returns for you
names(X11Fonts())
[1] "serif" "sans" "mono" "Times"
"Helvetica"
[6] "CyrTimes" "CyrHelvetica" "Arial" "Mincho"
[1] "-*-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
I'm running R 3.4.0, El Cap, XQuartz 2.7.11 (xorg-server 1.18.4) and
that won't change since my box is "end of life" per Apple's inflexible OS
support.
I tried running your test code and it seemed to lock up my X11 session as
well as my R console (Perhaps this is due to running Rcmder in the R.app
GUI?)
Best;
David.
I reloaded the older version of R (3.3.3), ran Rcmdr and the problem
disappeared. I downloaded R 3.4.0 again and the problem with Rcmdr
reappeared.
I read a previous post on the list regarding an issue with Rcmdr and
followed your suggestions to that posting:
1. The following test went well with R 3.4.0:
library (tcltk)
tk_messageBox(message="test")
2. Ran R 3.4.0 from the terminal, and then ran R Commander. The problem
persists.
I am running XQuartz 2.7.11. My machine is an iMac (27-inch, Late
2012); Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, with 32 GB RAM. Graphics: NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 675MX 1024 MB. OS X Sierra 10.12.4.
I will appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
Jos?
Jos? G. Conde, MD, MPH
Professor, School of Medicine
Director, CentIT2
UPR Medical Sciences Campus
Tel (787) 763-9401 Fax (787) 758-5206
Email: jose.conde1 at upr.edu
URL: http://rcmi.rcm.upr.edu