I also tried just upgrading to 20.04 and that seemed to fix it. On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:38 PM Kenny Bell <kmbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
