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4 messages · Roger Koenker, Brian Ripley, Marc Schwartz

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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
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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:

            

  
    
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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:

            
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Thanks to all, the suggested fix has cleared this up.

Roger
On Oct 31, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: