Error in grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : Polygon edge not found

R Problem Overview

I just installed RStudio on Mac OS X, version 10.7.3. After executing the following commands

library(ggplot2)
qplot(mpg, wt, data=mtcars)

I get the following error:

Error in grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y,  : 
  Polygon edge not found
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y,  :
  no font could be found for family "Arial"
2: In grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y,  :
  no font could be found for family "Arial"

How do I fix this?

R Solutions

Solution 1 - R

this happened to me and i discovered that the arial font file had been disabled. first check to see if Arial.ttf has been moved to the disabled fonts directory. from the terminal:

ls /Library/Fonts\ Disabled

if so, move it back to the active fonts directory.

sudo mv /Library/Fonts\ Disabled/Arial.ttf /Library/Fonts

log out, log in, then open the 'Font Book' application. in my case, arial was present before hand, but it was the Microsoft version stored in /Library/fonts/Microsoft/. Font Book may now show a yellow triangle next to the font name, indicating that multiple copies of the font exist. highlight the font name and chose the Resolve Duplicates command from the Edit menu. this should disable the Microsoft copy, which you can confirm by selecting one of the arial type faces (click the expand triangle next to the font name), right-click on the one labelled Off, and choose Reveal in Finder, which should open a window to Microsoft fonts directory.

Solution 2 - R

So I bumped into the same problem with a code that was working just a few weeks before, and no massive update of anything on the computer (except maybe the OS, now that I get to think about it...). The way I solved it is that I forced the graphic window to open first by calling

quartz()

before my graphs, and it did the trick. Still unsure about the font, I seem to have the Arial in place.

Solution 3 - R

After a few trials, I think this "fix" could help. First try running this to ensure the fonts actually exist:

loadfonts(dev="win")

If they do, call the following to ensure the name you're calling is similar to that R knows:

windowsFonts()

Otherwise, try the following:

library(extrafont)
extrafont::font_import()

The above fixed problems for me. Hope someone in the future may be helped by the same.

Solution 4 - R

After coming across the same problem again and again and trying different solutions I have decided to source the Arial font externally and add it to the Font Book. Prior to this exercise I had a number of fonts that came with MS Office, like Arial Black, Arial Narrow and so no but no plain Arial font visible. I'm guessing that this can be explained by the odd font policy that MS applications on Mac are applying, which is discussed in a greater detail here. Nevertheless, it appears that adding font externally solved the problem.

Solution 5 - R

I added an extra parameter to my qqplot() function like this:

theme(text=element_text(family="Garamond", size=14))

and sure enough - got a chart. End result then is:

ggplot(train, aes(x = pclass, fill = factor(survived))) +
  geom_bar() +
  xlab("Pclass") +
  ylab("Total Count") +
  labs(fill = "Survived") +
  theme(text=element_text(family="Garamond", size=14))

I did open Font Book and on my system (Mac OSX 10.12.3) is shows Arial as being off. I do have Microsoft apps installed including MS Excel but I cannot at this point correlate the disabling of any font with the install of any MS app. HTH

Solution 6 - R

As others have cited, this issue definitely seems to be related to a Microsoft Office upgrade (my company had just upgraded the software immediately before the issue surfaced).

After attempting to run a simple ggplot2 plot, I received the following Error and Warning:

Error in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y,  : 
  polygon edge not found
Warning messages:
1: In grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)) :
  no font could be found for family "Arial"

I resolved this issue by performing the following actions:

(1) Open Font Book

(2) Navigate to the Arial Font

(3) Right Click -> "Restore Font"

Then the plot rendered perfectly.

I hope this helps!

Solution 7 - R

For mac operating system, i tried many options but in the end following worked.

open font book and remove disable (enable) arial fonts.
restart the computer.

Solution 8 - R

I resolved by going to Font Book, going to File -> Restore Standard Fonts.

Solution 9 - R

I've faceted the same issue and it was enough reseting the plot area (dev.off()).

Solution 10 - R

I ran into the same problem (interestingly, I received the error when calling the "spplot" function rather than any of the ggplot2 functions). Because I had recently installed MS Office for Mac, I tried disabling the MS duplicate Arial font as was previously suggested, but still received the error message repeatedly even after doing this. I ended up simply removing all MS Office duplicate fonts (Go-->Computer-->Macintosh HD--->Library-->Fonts and then move the Microsoft folder to the trash). I'm not sure what effect this will have on my MS applications, but it seems to have remedied my R issues, which is more important to me at this point anyway!

Solution 11 - R

Working on MacOS, I got the same error message with the warnings mentioning instead of Arial the Roboto Condensed fonts. So I installed those, which removed the warnings, but not the error message.

Error in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y,  : 
  polygon edge not found

Then I found at https://community.rstudio.com/t/still-fighting-with-grid-call-c-textbounds-as-graphicsannot-x-label-x-x-x-y-polygon-edge-not-found-error/65559 the tip to re-install X11 https://www.xquartz.org .

After that the error disappeared ... but it still did not plot when the code was in an R file. It does work, though, when I knit in RStudio from an R-markdown document.

Solution 12 - R

I just ran into the same problem after updating my OS and a fresh install of MS Office, which seems to be the culprit.

Since I couldn't get the terminal approach to work, I simply went straight to the Font Book and enabled the disabled fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana) manually. After restarting, everything seems to be working fine now.

This strikes me as the most naïve solution but it's also easiest to implement imho.

Solution 13 - R

I encountered a similar problem using the function:

ggarrange (ggpubr package)

It was solved by manually deactivating and activating the package (by clicking on the package in "packages"). Maybe this also helps others :)

Solution 14 - R

I'm not so fantastic at this that I can afford to not ask the most basic questions first, please pardon me :slight_smile:

I understand that both R console jobs and Rstudio started failing out in their graphics plotting duties, and that now when you run trivial plot request, you receive failure error, and no plot.

Have you reset the sessions ? (Ctrl+Shft+F10) Sometimes sessions can get corrupted after all.

Alternatively, if you would like something else to try, before that route, it might be worth halting the graphics device. dev.off() and trying that elementary plot again.

Of course, if your issue is persistent, across to new sessions, then I will definitely have to bow out in favour of others with more expertise to think about this.

Regards, Nir

Solution 15 - R

Bizarre error. But for me, on mac, the solution was simple: simply update Xquartz.

Open spotlight search with cmd + space, search for Xquartz

Once, opened, go to about -> Check for updates -> Update.

Solution 16 - R

As a quick test as to whether this error is the result of a font-related issue, you can try plotting without any text (see code below).

    # test whether error is being generated by a font issue

    library(ggplot2)

    # this fails with font issue
    mtcars %>% 
      ggplot() + 
        aes(x = wt, y = mpg) + 
        geom_point()

    # remove all fonts to test if issue is font-related
    mtcars %>% 
      ggplot() + 
        aes(x = wt, y = mpg) + 
        geom_point() + 
        theme(text = element_blank())

If the second text-free plot works and you're on a Mac, then using a similar approach to others above may help:

Hit Command-Space and type Font Book to open that app
Right-click on Arial and select Disabled Arial
Right-click on Arial and select Enable Arial
When prompted to Resolve Duplicates select Resolve Automatically
Quit out of RStudio and re-open RStudio (I didn't need to reboot my computer)
Re-run plotting code as test (in my case it worked fine without the error)

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