[R] Display problems X11 device

Nicolas Mazziotta nicolas.mazziotta at swing.be
Tue Nov 7 12:14:56 CET 2006


> Hello,
>
> I am running R Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) on Kubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10
> (problems appreared after upgrading from previous version, but I don't know
> which version of R was included then).
>
> I have very weird problems with X11 device: it seems that it cannot display
> correctly. For instance,
>
>  x<-1:10
>  plot(x)
>
> opens the X11 plotting window, but points are not displayed, only box
> tickmarks. The margin are missing too.

It seems to be an encoding problem: if I set 

 LC_ALL=C (I used UTF-8)

Plotting works well... But then, my data files (which are utf8) are not 
imported correctly any longer. Is it possible to use UTF-8, so that I don't 
have to change the environment before I launch R?

-- 
Nicolas Mazziotta



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