It was pointed out to me that scatter plots made on our rhel5 system (sessionInfo() below, have the curious feature that when made with pdf() and viewed with evince show the points as "q" not "o". Is this a known problem with evince? It is pretty clearly not a problem with R, since if I bring the pdf file back to my mac and open in acrobat it looks normal. So this is a just-in-case- someone-else-runs-into-this kind of post. > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42 SparseM_0.80 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.10.0 url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801
Yes, it is known: it is described with workarounds (thanks to Marc Schwarz, AFAIR) on the ?pdf help page. On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:> It was pointed out to me that scatter plots made on our rhel5 system > (sessionInfo() below, have the curious > feature that when made with pdf() and viewed with evince show the points as > "q" not "o". Is this a known > problem with evince? It is pretty clearly not a problem with R, since if I > bring the pdf file back to my mac > and open in acrobat it looks normal. So this is a > just-in-case-someone-else-runs-into-this kind of post. > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012) > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > [8] base > > other attached packages: > [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42 SparseM_0.80 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.10.0 > > url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker > email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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
In the interest of full disclosure, I did not provide that particular workaround. It came via a thread on r-help back in January: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/185742.html and was then moved to r-devel: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-January/051891.html The workaround was posted by Martin in the r-devel part of the thread, which in turn was retrieved from the bug report here: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18002 See comments #8 and #10 in the above. Thanks! Marc Schwartz On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> Yes, it is known: it is described with workarounds (thanks to Marc > Schwarz, AFAIR) on the ?pdf help page. > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote: > >> It was pointed out to me that scatter plots made on our rhel5 >> system (sessionInfo() below, have the curious >> feature that when made with pdf() and viewed with evince show the >> points as "q" not "o". Is this a known >> problem with evince? It is pretty clearly not a problem with R, >> since if I bring the pdf file back to my mac >> and open in acrobat it looks normal. So this is a just-in-case- >> someone-else-runs-into-this kind of post. >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012) >> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets >> methods >> [8] base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42 SparseM_0.80 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] tools_2.10.0 >> >> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker >> email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics >> vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois >> fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Thanks to all, the suggested fix has cleared this up. Roger On Oct 31, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:> In the interest of full disclosure, I did not provide that > particular workaround. > > It came via a thread on r-help back in January: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/185742.html > > and was then moved to r-devel: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-January/051891.html > > The workaround was posted by Martin in the r-devel part of the > thread, which in turn was retrieved from the bug report here: > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18002 > > See comments #8 and #10 in the above. > > > Thanks! > > Marc Schwartz > > > On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> Yes, it is known: it is described with workarounds (thanks to Marc >> Schwarz, AFAIR) on the ?pdf help page. >> >> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote: >> >>> It was pointed out to me that scatter plots made on our rhel5 >>> system (sessionInfo() below, have the curious >>> feature that when made with pdf() and viewed with evince show the >>> points as "q" not "o". Is this a known >>> problem with evince? It is pretty clearly not a problem with R, >>> since if I bring the pdf file back to my mac >>> and open in acrobat it looks normal. So this is a just-in-case- >>> someone-else-runs-into-this kind of post. >>> >>>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012) >>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >>> >>> locale: >>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >>> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets >>> methods >>> [8] base >>> >>> other attached packages: >>> [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42 SparseM_0.80 >>> >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>> [1] tools_2.10.0 >>> >>> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker >>> email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics >>> vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois >>> fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801 >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk >> 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel