Are you using a UTF-8 locale? (You know, there are good reasons why the
posting guide asks for sessionInfo() output.)
If so, the problem is probably with the non-availability of fonts in
ISO10646 encoding, and you may well find that the R update suggested
(before posting) in the posting guide will help. But you may have to run
R in e.g. en_GB to get satisfactory results from an old version of R on an
old OS.
On Wed, 23 May 2007, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using R version 2.3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.
>
> When I run a simple:
>
> plot(1:10,1:10)
>
> The plot comes out great, but the fonts are displayed wrongly:
>
> http://coxpress.sourceforge.net/test.jpg
>
> I realise this is probably not an R problem per se, but before I go
> messing about with my fonts, can someone tell me which fonts R (or X11)
> is trying to display, where they might be installed and any suggestion
> as to why they're not being displayed properly...
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
> The information contained in this message may be confidentia...{{dropped}}
>
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