[R-sig-Geo] degAxis() does not print degree symbol

[Edzer Pebesma]

Karl, I'm running Ubuntu and do not have such problems.

Can you provide us with a reproducable example, a .png of the output you
see, and give us the output of sessionInfo() ? Is it only the degree
symbol that gives problems, or do you have other font issues?

On 10/11/2010 12:06 AM, karl wilson wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have recently been trying Bivand's book and tried to print the degree symbol along with longitude and latitude in the axes. It only prints a gamma or kappa symbol. 
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 10.10 on an i486 . The version of R is the latest R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> 
> I have a slice of Debian lenny running on the same machine and it can print the degree symbol perfectly.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is an Ubuntu problem or just a problem with the latest R distribution. Should I ask this question on an R forum?
> 
> I did find some chatter about this on another forum ( I can not remember which) but it did not get resolved there, or I could not find the resolution. 
> I believe someone said that Ripley, B. had contacted them off forum for some advice.
> 
> Any advice on this would be appreciated. 
> 
> Karl Wilson
> 
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> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:22:36 -0400
> From: govindas at msu.edu
> To: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Cc: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] reading .grd file in R?
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> Yes, i know its a Grads file ..! i have attached the control file and the g[[elided Yahoo spam]]
> 
> http://www.4shared.com/file/cuSG-05j/rf05_1975.html
> 
> I have not used Grads before, still i was able to read in  the control file and get the basic info.!?but, i am not sure about the package  required for .grd files in R - will i be able to read a Grads grid file into  R??? 
> 
> Thank u all,
> Mahalakshmi 
> 
>  Quoting Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:32 AM,? <govindas at msu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone let me know what package and function should be used to 
>>> read *.grd files in R? I tried readGDAL, open.ncdf functions already 
>>> which threw errors for file format mismatch.
>>
>> ? A file extension is not a good indication of what the file type is. I
>> could rename any file 'foo.grd' and it could be anything.
>>
>> ? Show us what readGDAL gives as an error message, and then we might be
>> able to help. readGDAL tries to guess the file format, maybe it
>> guessed right but the file is corrupted.
>>
>> ? Where did the file come from? Can we get it? Can you open it in a
>> text editor? Do you have a unix/linux box so you can run the command
>> 'file' on it?
>>
>> Barry
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> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:49:50 +0200
> From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de>
> To: govindas at msu.edu
> Cc: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] reading .grd file in R?
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> Hi Mahalakshmi,
> 
> On 09.10.2010 19:22 (UTC+1), govindas at msu.edu wrote:
>> Yes, i know its a Grads file ..! i have attached the control file and
> [[elided Yahoo spam]]
>>
>> http://www.4shared.com/file/cuSG-05j/rf05_1975.html
>>
>> I have not used Grads before, still i was able to read in the control
>> file and get the basic info.! but, i am not sure about the package
>> required for .grd files in R - will i be able to read a Grads grid file
>> into R???
> 
> I am afraid there is no direct solution at this time in R. Perhaps the 
> following script can help converting the data?
> 
> http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-002:_Saving_GrADS_variable_data_to_a_text_file
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Rainer
> 
> 
>> Thank u all,
>> Mahalakshmi
>>
>> Quoting Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
>>
>>   > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:32 AM, <govindas at msu.edu> wrote:
>>   >>
>>   >>
>>   >> Can someone let me know what package and function should be used to
>>   >> read *.grd files in R? I tried readGDAL, open.ncdf functions already
>>   >> which threw errors for file format mismatch.
>>   >
>>   >  A file extension is not a good indication of what the file type is. I
>>   > could rename any file 'foo.grd' and it could be anything.
>>   >
>>   >  Show us what readGDAL gives as an error message, and then we might be
>>   > able to help. readGDAL tries to guess the file format, maybe it
>>   > guessed right but the file is corrupted.
>>   >
>>   >  Where did the file come from? Can we get it? Can you open it in a
>>   > text editor? Do you have a unix/linux box so you can run the command
>>   > 'file' on it?
>>   >
>>   > Barry
> 
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