From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Tue Dec 28 16:15:07 1999
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:15:07 +0100 (MET)
Subject: coredump with plot(x,y,pch="+",cex=2.2) (PR#389)
Message-ID: <199912281615.RAA09267@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Rashid Nassar <rnassar@duke.edu> writes:

> On 27 Dec 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > 
> > Obviously, this shouldn't crash R, but the only reason I can see that
> > it might happen is if the scalable fonts are absent *and* the Adobe
> > fonts are not present in both 75dpi and 100dpi versions. I seem to
> > recall that RH6.0 had a bug in the font server setup somewhat to that
> > effect (causing Netscape to crash all over the place). So what is in
> > your /etc/X11/fs/config ? Mine (RH6.1+modif.) has:
....
> You are absolutely right.  Here is what is (was) in my  /etc/X11/fs/config:
> 
> #=====================================================
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo

Nice to know that you got it working, but it still puzzles me that it
broke. Unless, perhaps, you happen not to have the 100dpi fonts
installed...

(BTW: Things look much nicer with the urw fonts in RH6.1...)

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coredump with plot(x,y,pch="+",cex=2.2) (PR#389)
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