From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Oct 30 22:15:49 2009
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:15:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] evince pdf viewing
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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:

> 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
> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
> fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801
>
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[Rd] evince pdf viewing
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