install.packages("emojifont") library(emojifont) ... # plot as before.
Best, Ista On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.