[Rd] RE: [R] SAS or R software

[Marc Schwartz]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:13 -0500, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
> Yes, par(family="mono") would work, except that I get R segfaults from this
> sequence:
> 
> > 
> > plot.new()
> > par(family="mono")
> > par(cex=8)
> > strheight("foo")
> 
> Process R segmentation fault (core dumped) at Mon Dec 20 16:07:56 2004
> 
> on R 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 
> 
> In my code I call strheight and strwidth several times in order to find a
> cex that makes the text best fit the display area.  Once the segfaulting is
> fixed, I'll update my code to use par(family="mono").
> 
> -G

<snip>

Greg, it works here under FC3:

> plot.new()
> par(family="mono")
> par(cex=8)
> strheight("foo")
[1] 0.1083942

Not sure where the difference is.

Marc