Hello, I have recently been trying Bivand's book and tried to print the degree symbol along with longitude and latitude in the axes. It only prints a gamma or kappa symbol.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 on an i486 . The version of R is the latest R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I have a slice of Debian lenny running on the same machine and it can print the degree symbol perfectly. Does anyone know if this is an Ubuntu problem or just a problem with the latest R distribution. Should I ask this question on an R forum? I did find some chatter about this on another forum ( I can not remember which) but it did not get resolved there, or I could not find the resolution. I believe someone said that Ripley, B. had contacted them off forum for some advice. Any advice on this would be appreciated. Karl Wilson --- On Sun, 10/10/10, r-sig-geo-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch <r-sig-geo-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: From: r-sig-geo-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch <r-sig-geo-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch> Subject: R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 86, Issue 10 To: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010, 10:00 AM Send R-sig-Geo mailing list submissions to r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to r-sig-geo-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch You can reach the person managing the list at r-sig-geo-ow...@stat.math.ethz.ch When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of R-sig-Geo digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: reading .grd file in R? (govin...@msu.edu) 2. Re: reading .grd file in R? (Rainer Hurling) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:22:36 -0400 From: govin...@msu.edu To: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] reading .grd file in R? Message-ID: <20101009132236.12931k4z1ww82...@mail.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yes, i know its a Grads file ..! i have attached the control file and the g[[elided Yahoo spam]] http://www.4shared.com/file/cuSG-05j/rf05_1975.html I have not used Grads before, still i was able to read in the control file and get the basic info.!?but, i am not sure about the package required for .grd files in R - will i be able to read a Grads grid file into R??? Thank u all, Mahalakshmi Quoting Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:32 AM,? <govin...@msu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> Can someone let me know what package and function should be used to >> read *.grd files in R? I tried readGDAL, open.ncdf functions already >> which threw errors for file format mismatch. > >? A file extension is not a good indication of what the file type is. I > could rename any file 'foo.grd' and it could be anything. > >? Show us what readGDAL gives as an error message, and then we might be > able to help. readGDAL tries to guess the file format, maybe it > guessed right but the file is corrupted. > >? Where did the file come from? Can we get it? Can you open it in a > text editor? Do you have a unix/linux box so you can run the command > 'file' on it? > > Barry > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <4cb0c75e.8090...@gwdg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Mahalakshmi, On 09.10.2010 19:22 (UTC+1), govin...@msu.edu wrote: > Yes, i know its a Grads file ..! i have attached the control file and [[elided Yahoo spam]] > > http://www.4shared.com/file/cuSG-05j/rf05_1975.html > > I have not used Grads before, still i was able to read in the control > file and get the basic info.! but, i am not sure about the package > required for .grd files in R - will i be able to read a Grads grid file > into R??? I am afraid there is no direct solution at this time in R. Perhaps the following script can help converting the data? http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-002:_Saving_GrADS_variable_data_to_a_text_file Hope this helps, Rainer > Thank u all, > Mahalakshmi > > Quoting Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>: > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:32 AM, <govin...@msu.edu> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Can someone let me know what package and function should be used to > >> read *.grd files in R? I tried readGDAL, open.ncdf functions already > >> which threw errors for file format mismatch. > > > > A file extension is not a good indication of what the file type is. I > > could rename any file 'foo.grd' and it could be anything. > > > > Show us what readGDAL gives as an error message, and then we might be > > able to help. readGDAL tries to guess the file format, maybe it > > guessed right but the file is corrupted. > > > > Where did the file come from? Can we get it? Can you open it in a > > text editor? Do you have a unix/linux box so you can run the command > > 'file' on it? > > > > Barry ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo End of R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 86, Issue 10 ***************************************** [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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