On Thu, 24 May 2007, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > Brian > > sessionInfo() gives me: > > Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) > i686-redhat-linux-gnu > > attached base packages: > [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" > "datasets" > [7] "base" > > Thanks for the answer
Ah, that is so old that it does not give the locale. You need Sys.getlocale() to tell you what more modern versions of sessionInfo() say. > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 May 2007 11:40 > To: michael watson (IAH-C) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] Fonts do not display properly on Red Hat > > Are you using a UTF-8 locale? (You know, there are good reasons why the > > posting guide asks for sessionInfo() output.) > > If so, the problem is probably with the non-availability of fonts in > ISO10646 encoding, and you may well find that the R update suggested > (before posting) in the posting guide will help. But you may have to > run > R in e.g. en_GB to get satisfactory results from an old version of R on > an > old OS. > > On Wed, 23 May 2007, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm using R version 2.3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Server 3. >> >> When I run a simple: >> >> plot(1:10,1:10) >> >> The plot comes out great, but the fonts are displayed wrongly: >> >> http://coxpress.sourceforge.net/test.jpg >> >> I realise this is probably not an R problem per se, but before I go >> messing about with my fonts, can someone tell me which fonts R (or > X11) >> is trying to display, where they might be installed and any suggestion >> as to why they're not being displayed properly... >> >> Thanks >> Mick >> >> The information contained in this message may be > confidentia...{{dropped}} >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
