quartz fonts issue, ever resolved?

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Actually, I do have an answer. I just apparently forgot to write a
post on the subject. :-)

The problem is twofold. The first is that you don't have Arial on your
system and the hard coded fallback font is Arial (according to a note
I left to myself a problem with italics in Helvetica on 10.4 prompted
the decision).

The bigger problem is why you're falling back to that at all--it
should be a very rare occurrence. The problem looks to be that
par()$family is NULL by default which the font lookup code switches to
"default". Of course, when you look at "quartzFonts()" you'll notice
that it only includes valid values for par()$family which are "mono,"
"sans" or "serif." (Courier, Helvetica and Times-Roman respectively by
default).

A quick workaround is par(family="mono").

In the longer term, there appears to be a bug in the way
quartz.options()$family is used (it isn't as far as I can tell) that
I'm going to fix and write a patch for (probably falling back to that
before falling back to Arial).
I saw some traffic on this list last month

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-December/006921.html

re the warnings

no font could be found for family "Arial"

when using a quartz device. ?Was this ever resolved? ?I'm getting the same behavior with 2.10 (and later) but *not* when using the Urbanek/Iacus GUI (1.32 5546 Leopard). ? R from a terminal window (or ESS) produces the "text-less" graphs and warnings when using a quartz device; see the output below. ?Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Simon Jackman, Depts of Political Science & (by courtesy) Statistics,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6044, USA.
http://jackman.stanford.edu

system("uname -v")
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov ?3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
version
? ? ? ? ? ? ? _
platform ? ? ? x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
arch ? ? ? ? ? x86_64
os ? ? ? ? ? ? darwin9.8.0
system ? ? ? ? x86_64, darwin9.8.0
status ? ? ? ? Patched
major ? ? ? ? ?2
minor ? ? ? ? ?10.1
year ? ? ? ? ? 2010
month ? ? ? ? ?01
day ? ? ? ? ? ?06
svn rev ? ? ? ?50921
language ? ? ? R
version.string R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-01-06 r50921)
plot(1:10)
There were 17 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
warnings()
Warning messages:
1: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
2: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
3: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
4: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
5: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
6: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
7: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
8: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
9: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
10: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
11: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
12: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
?no font could be found for family "Arial"
13: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
14: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
15: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
16: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
17: In title(...) : no font could be found for family "Arial"
quartz.options()
$title
[1] "Quartz %d"

$width
[1] 7

$height
[1] 7

$pointsize
[1] 12

$family
[1] "Helvetica"

$fontsmooth
[1] TRUE

$antialias
[1] TRUE

$type
[1] "native"

$bg
[1] "transparent"

$canvas
[1] "white"

$dpi
[1] NA

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