I have a small problem with R graphics output. When I use the lattice package and CairoPDF to generate publication quality graphs I often use the expression to create an axis title that has microlitres or micrometers as a unit. I use something like the following 'expression(paste("Length (", mu,"m )"))' as an argument to the xlabel function. The command works but the mu and 'm' have a space between them. It looks like 'u m' rather than 'um'. It only seems to happen with the CairoPDF output on my linux machine, it's fine on the X11 device. I've fixed it in the past by importing the pdf into inkscape and manually adjusting the spacing (it's more difficult than it sounds because I can't actually adjust the spacing but have to delete the mu and re-enter it). Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is this a known bug? How can I fix it?
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