Showtext prevents creating cairo-png objects when labels are blank

[pritz2]

Created a plot, wanted to create a custom x-axis, so I set xlab to " " and xaxt="n". Found that the text and axis commands no longer drew to my graph!

library("showtext")
showtext.opts(dpi = 144)
showtext.auto()

#Open cairo-png device
png(filename = "output.png", type = "cairo-png")

# plot basic x/y graph
x<-1:10
y<-1:10
plot(x, y, ylab="Y axis",xlab=" ",xaxt = "n")

# add text and axis
text(x, y, label=y, pos=3)
axis(1, at=x, labels=x)

# close the device
dev.off()

So I changed the plot line of code to be null instead of a space:

plot(x, y, ylab="Y axis",xlab="",xaxt = "n")

And then the axes and text appeared

Am I missing something fundamental or is this a bug?

[yixuan]

This seems to be a genuine bug. I'll try to figure it out.

[yixuan]

820bfb3 fixes this issue. I'll prepare a CRAN release soon.

[yixuan]

On CRAN now.