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 rkoen...@uiuc.edu Department of Economics
vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois
fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801
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