[R] A trivial plot gives open circles as the plot char but another one gives me "q"s . . why is this?

[peter dalgaard]

On Apr 3, 2012, at 07:19 , Philip Rhoades wrote:

> People,
> 
> On my home computer with a real plot I get what I expect - open circles as the plot character - on my work computer I get "q"s !  So I tried a trivial test plot on the work computer ie:
> 

Argh. I have forgotten this before... There was a configuration issue leading to plotting symbols showing up as "q", but I can't recall the details. Possibly libpango-related (do you have it installed?)

-pd


> a <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
> b <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
> plot(a,b)
> 
> and that also gives me open circles as it should! - the plot line in my real script is:
> 
> plot( means5[ ,4 ], means6[ ,4 ], xlab="640loci-50reps Gen4(-1) Rst", ylab="ADf" )
> 
> I have tried adding the "pch=x" command with no effect . . what is going on?  (Both computers have the same fonts installed although the home computer is Fedora 16 and the work one is Fedora 15).  It is very frustrating . .
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
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