[ESS] Print spark histograms from skimr package in Emacs ESS on Windows

[Ista Zahn]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Hi Vinh,
>
> It works for me out of the box, no need for Chinese locale or R specific tricks:

Just to clarify -- it works for you _on Windows_? For me it works on
Linux but _not_ on Windows. And "out of the box" means starting with

runemacs.exe -q

followed by

(package-initialize)
(require 'ess-site)

?

For me R only displays a subset of characters correctly. For example,
"\U00B5" displays correctly but "\U4E02" does not. Both characters
display correctly when inserted with "insert-char", so this is not a
font problem.

The attached screen shot shows the behavior I observe in Emacs 25.3 on
Windows starting from "runemacs.exe -q" (left) and when running
"runemacs.exe" and using my usual configuration. The behavior is
different, but in neither case is the 丂 character displayed correctly.



Best,
Ista
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>    Variable type: numeric
>         variable missing complete   n mean   sd  p0 p25 median p75 p100     hist
>     Petal.Length       0      150 150 3.76 1.77 1   1.6   4.35 5.1  6.9 ▇▁▁▂▅▅▃▁
>      Petal.Width       0      150 150 1.2  0.76 0.1 0.3   1.3  1.8  2.5 ▇▁▁▅▃▃▂▂
>     Sepal.Length       0      150 150 5.84 0.83 4.3 5.1   5.8  6.4  7.9 ▂▇▅▇▆▅▂▂
>      Sepal.Width       0      150 150 3.06 0.44 2   2.8   3    3.3  4.4 ▁▂▅▇▃▂▁▁
>
> My bet is that it's your emacs font which doesn't recognize those Unicode
> characters.



>
> In my experience DejaVu is among the most complete fonts so I do this in my .emacs:
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>   (set-face-font 'default  "DejaVu Sans Mono-9.5")
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> You can see all fonts on your machine with by calling (font-family-list).
>
> HTH,
>
>   Vitalie
>
>
>>> On Tue, Jan 23 2018 17:35, Vinh Nguyen wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>
>> Was curious if anyone was able to print spark histograms from the
>> skimr in the text console of Emacs ESS?  Tried setting to Chinese
>> locale, playing around with environment variables, but can't get
>> things to print as described here:
>> https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr/issues/246
>
>> I'm able to print on the regular R console by setting to the Chinese
>> locale and using the NSimSun font as described here
>> (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44253848/skimr-cant-seem-to-produce-the-histograms),but no luck on the Emacs ESS side.
>
>> Curious if others have gotten this to work.  Thanks!
>> -- Vinh
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