degAxis() does not print degree symbol
Karl, I'm running Ubuntu and do not have such problems. Can you provide us with a reproducable example, a .png of the output you see, and give us the output of sessionInfo() ? Is it only the degree symbol that gives problems, or do you have other font issues?
On 10/11/2010 12:06 AM, karl wilson wrote:
Hello,
I have recently been trying Bivand's book and tried to print the degree symbol along with longitude and latitude in the axes. It only prints a gamma or kappa symbol.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 on an i486 . The version of R is the latest R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
I have a slice of Debian lenny running on the same machine and it can print the degree symbol perfectly.
Does anyone know if this is an Ubuntu problem or just a problem with the latest R distribution. Should I ask this question on an R forum?
I did find some chatter about this on another forum ( I can not remember which) but it did not get resolved there, or I could not find the resolution.
I believe someone said that Ripley, B. had contacted them off forum for some advice.
Any advice on this would be appreciated.
Karl Wilson
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