[Rd] [FORGED] Re: plotmath degree symbol

[Paul Murrell]

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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