Default R Font Changed After Upgrade to Debian 8

| 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

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

Dear Dario,

if you think this is an issue related to the Debian packaging rather than the 
local configuration, please provide a screenshot of the "grainy" fonts, the 
code you used to produce it, and the output of sessionInfo().

Kind regards, and a good start into the new year to all,

Johannes


Am Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2015, 05:00:08 schrieb Dario Strbenac:

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 ?

--------------------------------------
Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia

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