I had a problem to plot in R or rpy2 when I started the R on Terminal on Mac OSX (R works fine if started by clicking it on Lauchpad ). R throws an following error if locale is set to C.
Error in axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : could not find any X11 fonts Check that the Font Path is correct. In addition: Warning messages: 1: In function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg, : locale not supported by Xlib: some X ops will operate in C locale 2: In function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg, : X cannot set locale modifiers
Running command “export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8” on Terminal before starting R or python fix this (or adding it to .profile file).
Petri Lankoski 