[Rd] SVG Error on Windows if Multiplication Character Present

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

I have started to take a look at this, but it may be slow to debug on 
Windows.

My initial finding was that the problem happened for me on BOTH svg() 
and default windows() devices.  What R version are you using ?  (mine is 
below)

 > sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.5

Some additional information ...

 > capabilities()
jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

 > grSoftVersion()
cairo cairoFT pango
"1.16.0" "" ""
libpng jpeg libtiff
"1.6.37" "8.0" "LIBTIFF, Version 4.2.0"

Paul

On 7/04/21 8:00 pm, Dario Strbenac wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> The example below fails on Windows with Error in 
> grid.Call.graphics(C_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y: Metric 
> information not available for this family/device.
> 
> library(ggplot2)
> aPlot <- ggplot(ToothGrowth, aes(x = factor(dose), y = len)) + 
> geom_boxplot() +
> ggtitle("Test", subtitle = ggplot2::expr(paste("p", " = ", "6.23", " × 
> ", "10"^"-5")))
> svg("test.svg"); aPlot; dev.off();
> 
> but there is no such problem on a Debian Linux server. The plot in 
> Windows appears fine in an R graphics window. The error only occurs when 
> exported as an SVG file. Using %*% instead of × avoids the error but 
> it's perhaps worth mentioning in case it could be easily handled by R.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Dario Strbenac
> University of Sydney
> Camperdown NSW 2050
> Australia
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