[R] Fonts do not display properly on Red Hat

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 May 2007, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:

> Brian
>
> sessionInfo() gives me:
>
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> i686-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>
> Thanks for the answer

Ah, that is so old that it does not give the locale.  You need 
Sys.getlocale() to tell you what more modern versions of sessionInfo() 
say.


>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 23 May 2007 11:40
> To: michael watson (IAH-C)
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Fonts do not display properly on Red Hat
>
> Are you using a UTF-8 locale?  (You know, there are good reasons why the
>
> posting guide asks for sessionInfo() output.)
>
> If so, the problem is probably with the non-availability of fonts in
> ISO10646 encoding, and you may well find that the R update suggested
> (before posting) in the posting guide will help.  But you may have to
> run
> R in e.g. en_GB to get satisfactory results from an old version of R on
> an
> old OS.
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm using R version 2.3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.
>>
>> When I run a simple:
>>
>> plot(1:10,1:10)
>>
>> The plot comes out great, but the fonts are displayed wrongly:
>>
>> http://coxpress.sourceforge.net/test.jpg
>>
>> I realise this is probably not an R problem per se, but before I go
>> messing about with my fonts, can someone tell me which fonts R (or
> X11)
>> is trying to display, where they might be installed and any suggestion
>> as to why they're not being displayed properly...
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mick
>>
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> confidentia...{{dropped}}
>>
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>

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