[Rd] evince pdf viewing

[Marc Schwartz]

In the interest of full disclosure, I did not provide that particular  
workaround.

It came via a thread on r-help back in January:

   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/185742.html

and was then moved to r-devel:

   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-January/051891.html

The workaround was posted by Martin in the r-devel part of the thread,  
which in turn was retrieved from the bug report here:

   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18002

See comments #8 and #10 in the above.


Thanks!

Marc Schwartz


On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Yes, it is known: it is described with workarounds (thanks to Marc  
> Schwarz, AFAIR) on the ?pdf help page.
>
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:
>
>> It was pointed out to me that scatter plots made on our rhel5  
>> system (sessionInfo() below, have the curious
>> feature that when made with pdf() and viewed with evince show the  
>> points as "q" not "o".  Is this a known
>> problem with evince?  It is pretty clearly not a problem with R,  
>> since if I bring the pdf file back to my mac
>> and open in acrobat it looks normal.  So this is a just-in-case- 
>> someone-else-runs-into-this kind of post.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012)
>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>> [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets   
>> methods
>> [8] base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42   SparseM_0.80
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.10.0
>>
>> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
>> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
>> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
>> fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801
>>
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