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Distorted/blurred plots in plot-pane for specific scaling settings
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Description
Plots created with ggplot are quite distorted/blurred, in particular labels. See:
And also for this small reprex.
ggplot2::ggplot(iris, ggplot2::aes(x = Sepal.Width, y = Sepal.Length)) +
ggplot2::geom_point()
I'm using Positron on Windows 11.
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Research direction
Start in the plot-pane rendering path and reproduce the issue on Windows 11 with the supplied ggplot2 iris example and the reported scaling settings. Compare the rendered plot and labels under affected and unaffected settings; done means plots and labels are no longer distorted or blurred.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100