[R-sig-Debian] degree symbol using X11 on Xubuntu 10.04

[Christian Kamenik]

Michael,

Many thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately, removing 
ttf-symbol-replacement did not solve the problem. With demo(plotmath) I 
get an Upsilon1 instead of a ° for expression(32 *degree).

Christian

>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am having exactly the same problem as Andy on an Intel Mac (see below
>> / https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-May/006208.html) with
>> the degree symbol. I am using R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) on Xubuntu
>> 10.04 with Windows fonts copied from /WINDOWS/Fonts and included via
>> 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' and 'sudo fc-cache'.
>>
>> Any help would be highly appreciated, Christian
>>
>
> Christian,
>
> I believe the solution is:
>
> sudo apt-get remove ttf-symbol-replacement
>
> Not sure why this package is being installed, but removing this solved 
> the problem.  I had a test version of Maverick in a virtual box that 
> was basically stock, and was able to demo(plotmath) perfectly.  I 
> started comparing package lists and this was the problem child.
>
> Michael
>


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