Family matters have kept me away, I'm finally coming back to this thread.
In summary, this is an issue with a particular workstation, not with R. Graphics with
X11(type="Xlib") have a y label problem when displayed on this particular box, whether
using R locally or from a server via ssh -X. T
Sorry, can't reproduce on ...
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.0
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC
In the following plot, the y label is missing if it is too long.
x11(type="Xlib")
plot(1:5, 1:5, ylab="Do, a deer, a female deer") # missing label
plot(1:5, 1:5, ylab="Do") # label is present
All is well for x11(type="cairo")
This is true both under R devel 2017-09-01
