Dear all, I'd like to use some UTF-8 characters in a plot. Some of them are not rendered with saving the plot as pdf. Any suggestions?
library(ggplot2) symbols <- c("\U1F697", "\U00A9", "\U24DA", "\U00C1") test <- data.frame( x = seq_along(symbols) %% ceiling(sqrt(length(symbols))), y = ceiling(seq_along(symbols) / ceiling(sqrt(length(symbols)))), symbol = symbols ) p <- ggplot(test, aes(x = x, y = y, label = symbol)) + geom_text(size = 10) p ggsave(p, file = "test.png") ggsave(p, file = "test.pdf") The last command gives several similar warnings, all related to the symbols which are not rendered properly: Warning messages: 1: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), ... : conversion failure on '🚗' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <f0> I'm running R 3.3.2 under Ubuntu 16.04.1 and ggplot2 2.2.1 Best regards, Thierry ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.