[R] How to handle Chinese character in R plot?

C.H. chainsawtiney at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 12:35:26 CEST 2012


I guess you are using Arch.

I think it might be related to the fonts. Try to install good Chinese
font such as ttf-wqy-zenhei. In my (debian) system, I have only
installed this font and it plots in R without hiccups.



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Manish Gupta <mandecent.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I also did the same what u suggested.
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=zh_CN.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=zh_CN.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=zh_SG.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_SG.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] XML_3.9-4
>> source("a.txt",encoding="UTF-8")
>
> But still same pblm is there.
>
> <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4646421/Screenshot.png>
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