Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:02 +0000, Gregor Gorjanc wrote: >> Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson <at> ucl.ac.uk> writes: >>> Dear List >>> >>> I just noticed the following behaviour in R 2.3.1 Patched (2006-06-13 >>> r38342) and confirmed similar behaviour in R 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-18 >>> r39383) & R 2.5.0 (2006-09-18 r39383) - which may actually be the same >>> thing?, that trying to plot the unicode character \u2030 (which should >>> be in a ‰ [per mille] sign) in an axis label leads to the following >>> error: >>> >>> *** stack smashing detected ***: /home/gavin/R/R-devel/build/bin/exec/R >>> terminated >>> Aborted >>> >>> The simplest, reproducible example I have tried is: >>> >>> plot(1:10, ylab = "\u2030") >>> >> I can not reproduce this on my Debian GNU/Linux. I get something like "S >> for y label under 2.3.1 2006-06-01 and 2.5.0 2006-09-13 r39292 with the >> following locale >> >> [1] "LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8; >> LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8; >> LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C; >> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C" >> >> It does not change if I set everything into en_GB.UTF-8. Is this valid >> unicode code? >> >> Gregor > > Cheers for the follow up Gregor, > > I was following advice given by Prof. Ripley in a posting on R-Help > about how to get the per mille character: > > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/48709.html > > It should look like a "%" character but with two circles at the bottom.
Perhaps I do not have appropriate font for this character. Gregor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
