Images are sensitive to system fonts
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Description
A common occurrence on GHA testing involves producing a plot from data.
In shinycoreci-apps, we have commonly seen plots adjust from bolded to unbolded text and points. There has been no logic change in Shiny/friends, only the virtual image has been updated.
Ex: The title changes from regular to bolded weight. This also has an effect on the bottom axis position.
https://github.com/rstudio/shinycoreci-apps/commit/bacf6764e8c7abbb82f98f3ffc3f72723f02a388?short_path=347b423#diff-347b423295ec899595d3e976a90d165ca9394fee95529e1344a3f2bca6a8cb80
Goal: Make plot font consistent by not allowing default font weight to change.
Could this be done through systemfonts? Should it be done by fixing the virtual environment by the image version (Can this be done?)?
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Research direction
Start with the linked shinycoreci-apps commit and the GitHub Actions image used for the affected plot. Investigate whether systemfonts or pinning the virtual environment controls the font weight; the issue is done when the plot font and layout remain consistent across image updates.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions, r
- Domain
- ci-cd, testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100