On 8 October 2006 at 10:04, Ryan Lovett wrote:
| On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:45:28AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > Peter, Kurt, Brian,
| >
| > Here is a belated comment from an R user on amd64 experiencing font problems
| > as described in an earlier bug report by Ryan, and a suggested way to fix
the
| > issue.
| >
| > The full (older) discussion of the problem is at
| > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309012
| > and Peter had chimed in once or twice.
| >
| > I can't really judge how pervasive the issue is, and if something out to be
| > done about it at the R level, but I thought I should at least give you the
| > heads up. My thanks to Andreas for the follow-up and the tip.
| >
| > Ryan: Is there something you folks at Berkeley observed?
|
|
| I don't recall ever trying out that xset command, though it has been a
| while. We've since switched to Ubuntu and cannot reproduce the behavior.
That's an interesting data point as it pretty much gets R out of jail for
free --- given how Ubuntu uses my packages unaltered (yet presumably has
differnt polish and fixes for X11).
| But thanks for your perseverance! :)
Just playing messaging broker at this point :)
Dirk (running R under Debian and Ubuntu at different places)
--
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
