There is R-sig-debian (Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian), but to be honest, this seems more like a question for askubuntu.com. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On October 2, 2016 1:55:59 PM PDT, Rolf Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > >Dunno exactly whom I should ask about this problem, but I thought I'd >start with good old r-help. > >I have recently acquired a new laptop, and have installed Ubuntu 16.04 >on it. Still having some teething problems. > >If I do > >plot(1:10,ylab=expression(italic(J(r))) > >I get the error: > >Error in title(...) : > X11 font -*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 5 at size 15 >could not be loaded > >So it would seem that I am missing a font. Fonts have always been a >complete mystery to me. Can anyone suggest how I might rectify this >deficiency in the fonts on my system? If so, *please* be as explicit >as >you can in your instructions; I am all at sea here. > >cheers, > >Rolf Turner > >P. S. I have also just noticed that if I do: > >plot(1:10,ylab=expression(alpha)) > >I get an "a" as the y-axis label, rather than the Greek letter alpha. > >Likewise if I do plot(1:10,ylab=expression(Sigma)) I get a capital "S" >rather than an upper case Greek Sigma symbol. No error thrown, but. > >Any ideas as to how to fix this problem? > >For what it's worth, here is my sessionInfo(): > >R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) >Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS > >locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >attached base packages: >[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > >other attached packages: >[1] misc_0.0-16 > >loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] deldir_0.1-13 Matrix_1.2-3 mgcv_1.8-12 > [4] abind_1.4-3 spatstat_1.46-1.036 rpart_4.1-10 > [7] nlme_3.1-128 grid_3.3.1 polyclip_1.5-0 >[10] lattice_0.20-33 goftest_1.0-3 tensor_1.5 > >R. T. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
