Hi Paul, Thanks for following this up!
It used to be R version 3.3.1 I updated to R version 3.4.0 Now everything seems to work! Many thanks! Best, Andreas On 23/06/17 03:02, Paul Murrell wrote: > Hi > > What version of R do you have (on the remote machine) ? > > I can replicate this with ... > > x11(type="Xlib") > library(grid) > convertHeight(stringDescent("größe"), "in") > > ... on R 3.2.5, but not on, e.g., R 3.4.0 (just running R locally in > both cases). > > Paul > > On 21/06/17 20:05, Andreas Leha wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am struggling with remote R sessions and a (I suspect) locale related >> encoding problem: Using the X11 device (X11forwarding enabled), >> whenever I try to plot something containing umlauts using ggplot2, I am >> seeing sth like >> >> ,---- >> | Error in grid.Call(L_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)) : >> | invalid use of -61 < 0 in 'X11_MetricInfo' >> `---- >> >> Using base graphics is fine as is plotting to another device (pdf, say). >> >> Here is some code to reproduce: >> >> ,---- >> | plot(1:10, 1:10, main = "größe") >> | ## this works >> | >> | library("ggplot2") >> | qplot(1:10, 1:10) >> | ## this works still >> | >> | qplot(1:10, 1:10) + xlab("größe") >> | ## ERROR >> `---- >> >> >> My setup: >> - locally: >> Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 9) >> - remotely >> Linux (RHEL Server release 7.3 (Maipo) >> >> (Maybe) relevant bits of my .ssh/config: >> >> ,---- >> | Host theserver >> | HostName XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX >> | ForwardX11 yes >> | ForwardX11Timeout 596h >> | IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa >> | IdentitiesOnly yes >> | ForwardAgent yes >> | ServerAliveInterval 300 >> `---- >> >> Thanks in advance for your help! >> >> Best, >> Andreas >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org 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. >> > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.