Re: [R] Code \255 no longer working to produce a short dash in base R PDF graphs

Ivan Krylov wrote: >> text(1, 11, "baseline\255defined") >> text(1, 9, "done") >> graphics.off() >> >> They like that dash - but I never knew what it was called. >> >> Recently work updated my PC to the latest version of Windows, and, >> perforce, I updated to the latest version of R (4.4.

[R] Code \255 no longer working to produce a short dash in base R PDF graphs

I make graphs, in large quantities, for perfectionists. My bosses do not like the results of text like 'baseline-defined' in graphs; they feel that the resulting dash is too long. For many years, I have been in the habit of producing graphs with shorter dashes as follows: pdf("myfile.pdf") plo