I can also confirm that the latest https://hub.docker.com/_/r-base has the correct behaviour.
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:05 PM Kenny Bell <kmbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was actually able to reproduce this on a relatively fresh install of > 18.04 (a virtualbox). Paul, did you run apt update && apt upgrade before > trying to reproduce? > > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:36 PM Kenny Bell <kmbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> I tried downgrading to R 3.4.4 and I still see the problem. I also have a >> conda environment that doesn't exhibit the problem so it's something >> environmental. >> >> Any tips for possible solutions/troubleshooting would be appreciated! >> >> Cheers, >> Kenny >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 3:09 PM Paul Murrell <p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I am not seeing that problem on my 18.04 ... >>> >>> > sessionInfo() >>> R version 4.0.0 Patched (2020-05-12 r78431) >>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>> Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS >>> >>> Matrix products: default >>> BLAS: /home/pmur002/R/R-4-0-branch/BUILD/lib/libRblas.so >>> LAPACK: /home/pmur002/R/R-4-0-branch/BUILD/lib/libRlapack.so >>> >>> locale: >>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>> [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8 >>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8 >>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>> >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>> [1] compiler_4.0.0 >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> On 26/05/20 2:21 pm, Kenny Bell wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I have found after upgrading to R 4.0.0 (among other upgrades so this >>> may >>> > not be the cause) that the degree symbol doesn't work correctly on >>> Ubuntu >>> > 18.04. Googling brought me to this thread that appears related. >>> > >>> > I tried running: >>> > cairo_pdf() >>> > plot.new(); text(0.5,0.5, bquote(120*degree*N), cex=5) >>> > dev.off() >>> > >>> > and the ubuntu plot has the degree symbol vertically in the center of >>> the >>> > line. The Windows one correctly shows as superscript. >>> > >>> > Anyone else see this behaviour? >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Kenny >>> > >>> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:36 AM Nicolas Mailhot via R-devel < >>> > r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Le mercredi 08 avril 2020 à 02:55 -0700, Gabriel Becker a écrit : >>> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >> >>> >> Hi Gabriel, >>> >> >>> >> Thanks a lot for the testing. >>> >> >>> >>> The various font family settings seem to work too, from what I can >>> >>> tell. Both font families you suggested, however, Helvetica and Apple >>> >>> Symbols (the s is important) have significantly incomplete coverage >>> >>> with PUA on. >>> >> >>> >> That is to be expected, the AMS symbol dump in PUA space was a quick >>> >> hack to make pre-unicode symbols available in an unicode world, >>> pending >>> >> their normalisation. >>> >> >>> >> That standardisation is long past (IIRC it occured by unicode 3.2 >>> >> released in March 2002), so no newly created/updated font family is >>> >> going to place those symbols in PUA anymore. >>> >> >>> >> Now adding the AMS symbols to new fonts has been slow, due to the >>> large >>> >> amount of software hardcoding Symbol (and equivallent) and masking the >>> >> actual glyph userbase to font makers. It will accelerate with more >>> apps >>> >> expecting plain unicode by default. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks for the testing! >>> >> >>> >> Regards, >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Nicolas Mailhot >>> >> >>> >> ______________________________________________ >>> >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ______________________________________________ >>> >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >>> -- >>> Dr Paul Murrell >>> Department of Statistics >>> The University of Auckland >>> Private Bag 92019 >>> Auckland >>> New Zealand >>> 64 9 3737599 x85392 >>> p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz >>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ >>> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
