plotmath degree symbol

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.