Hi, The R 3 packages for wheezy are currently being built for i386 and amd64. If all goes well, they will be available within the next two days.
As for R on Debian wheezy, I just checked demo(plotmath) on the default R 2.15.1 on wheezy, and it produced all the nice plotting symbols I would expect in good quality. I realize this does not help you, I just want to make clear that wheezy is not the problem here. I will check the wheezy backport for proper functioning of plotmath. Kind regards, Johannes Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2013, 15:09:59 schrieb Paul Johnson: > Thanks Charles, but ... (below) > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Charles Plessy > <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > Le Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:25:14PM -0500, Paul Johnson a écrit : > > > > > > > > Dear Paul, > > > > the packages in the squeeze-cran3 folder are built for the Debian > > "Squeeze" (6.0) distribution. The liblzma2 package exists in Squeeze, > > but not in Wheezy > > (Debian 7.0, the distribution you used for your fresh install). > > Downgrades are not supported, as exemplified by your problem. > > > > Debian Wheezy was released just one week ago, so I guess it is only a > > matter of > > time before a "wheezy-cran" folder will be provided. > > > > Best regards, > > I agree to your interpretation of the packaging problem. I can post the R > packages for Wheezy on my website if anybody wants them. > > Now, back to the "no glyph" problem. Does > > > demo(plotmath) > > work for you on Debian 7? > > Here's a re-producible example that generates bad on-screen output for me. > > plot(0~0, type = "n") > text(.4, expression(group(lceil,x, rceil)), cex=0.5) > > The glyphs for the left and right braces look like "dominoes". > > I found a thread from 2010 about a similar problem, but that case blamed > the Wine fonts. Now I suspect some other bad symbol font has found its way > to the front of my path. > > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14355 > > That thread points out that using the Xlib version of the X11 device SOLVES > the problem, but at the price of slightly lower quality of output. If I > want to use the default Cairo device, apparently I have to fiddle > something. > > I am experimenting with the debugging and fontconfig adjustments that might > be used to avoid the trouble. > > To the non-full-time-font administrator like me, this is a bit overwhelming > because there are so many different types of fonts. > > pj > > > -- > > Charles Plessy _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
