R SIG Debian - Dec 2015 - Default R Font Changed After Upgrade to Debian 8

Good day,

The server administrator recently upgraded the operating system from Debian
version 7 to version 8 and R from version 3.1.2 to version 3.2.2. The default
font used in plots has changed and I've asked him to restore the previous
font. What instructions should I tell him about restoring the font ?

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia

On 18 December 2015 at 00:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
| The server administrator recently upgraded the operating system from Debian
version 7 to version 8 and R from version 3.1.2 to version 3.2.2. The default
font used in plots has changed and I've asked him to restore the previous
font. What instructions should I tell him about restoring the font ?

I doubt that this is R-related. R's dependencies have not changed. It
displays via x11 using the resources offered by x11.

So it may have to do with your x11 server setup, maybe via the windowing
environment etc pp.  You may need to compare the list of font packages
between Debian 7 and 8.  You could also try to ask on debian-user.

Dirk

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http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

Good day,

I have been unable to solve this issue. Do you get grainy fonts when running the
test case

plot(1:10, main = "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", cex.main = 4, cex.lab
= 4, cex.axis = 4)

What version of libcairo is on your system ?

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia