[R-pkg-team] Bug#955316: r-cran-svglite autopkgtest fails: Error: symbol font

[Andreas Tille]

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Control: forwarded -1 Lionel Henry <lionel at rstudio.com>
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Hi Lionel,

the Debian packaged version of svglite received a bug report[1] about a
failing test.

I can reproduce this by:


r-cran-svglite/tests(master) $ LC_ALL=C R --no-save < testthat.R

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> library(testthat)
> library(svglite)
> 
> test_check("svglite")
-- 1. Error: symbol font family is 'Symbol' (@test-text-fonts.R#30)  -----------
StartTag: invalid element name [68]
Backtrace:
 1. svglite::xmlSVG(...)
 3. xml2:::read_xml.character(plot)
 4. xml2:::read_xml.raw(...)

== testthat results  ===========================================================
[ OK: 93 | SKIPPED: 5 | WARNINGS: 0 | FAILED: 1 ]
1. Error: symbol font family is 'Symbol' (@test-text-fonts.R#30) 

Error: testthat unit tests failed
Execution halted



Do you have any hint how to fix this test?  May be its some missing
font package we should add to the dependencies?

Kind regards

      Andreas.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955316#10

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