[Rd] [FORGED] Re: plotmath degree symbol

Paul Murrell p@ul @ending from @t@t@@uckl@nd@@c@nz
Wed Sep 5 22:34:21 CEST 2018


Awesome.  Thanks for confirming.

Paul

On 05/09/18 19:46, Edzer Pebesma wrote:
> Thanks, Paul -- setting the ~/.fonts.conf file the way ?X11 describes it
> under the section you pointed to resolved the problem for me, on ubuntu.
> 
> On 09/04/2018 11:55 PM, Paul Murrell wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Thanks for that, but I still cannot confirm on ...
>>
>> sudo docker run -v $(pwd):/home/work/ -w /home/work --rm -ti
>> rocker/r-ver:3.5.1
>>
>> Could you please read the comments within the "Cairo Fonts" section of
>> the ?X11 help page, in case that offers some explanation.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 29/08/18 02:15, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 19:53, Edzer Pebesma
>>> <edzer.pebesma using uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In plotmath expressions, R's degree symbol, e.g. shown by
>>>>
>>>> plot(1, main = parse(text = "1*degree*C"))
>>>>
>>>> has sunk to halfway the text line, instead of touching its top. In older
>>>> R versions this looked much better.
>>>
>>> I can confirm this problem.
>>>
>>> R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
>>>
>>> Matrix products: default
>>> BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.7.1
>>> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1
>>>
>>> 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=en_US.UTF-8    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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] compiler_3.5.1
>>>
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> 

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