[Rd] graphics character misplaced (PR#548)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Adrian Custer wrote:

> The character "*" displays too high in comparison to the graph space and
> other characters in the plot. Consider:
> 
> > a_-0.15
> > plot(c(0,100),c(0,1))
> > for (i in 1:100){ points(i,(1-exp(a*i)),pch=".",col="blue")}
> > for (i in 1:100){ points(i,(1-exp(a*i)),pch="*",col="red")}
> > abline(1,0)

Can anyone reproduce this?  On my Solaris system the placing looks spot on
on X11 and postscript, so it looks to me to be a system-specific
font-metric problem.  I noticed it came from a beta OS (gnu-linux (mandrake
7.1beta)), and I am presumming that the X11 device was meant.

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