[Rd] plotmath degree symbol

Paul Murrell
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:36:57 -0000

Hi

Sorry, but this seems to be working ok for me ...

 > sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.6.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.6.0

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.2

... and ...

 > sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2018-08-22 r75177)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /home/pmur002/R/r-devel/BUILD/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /home/pmur002/R/r-devel/BUILD/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  utils     datasets  grDevices methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.0

... what is your setup ?

Paul

On 25/08/18 05:53, Edzer Pebesma wrote:
> In plotmath expressions, R's degree symbol, e.g. shown by
>
> plot(1, main = parse(text = "1*degree*C"))
>
> has sunk to halfway the text line, instead of touching its top. In older
> R versions this looked much better.
>

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