r - ggplot2 issue: graph text shown with weird unicode blocks

Question

I have got the following problem: When I plot anything with ggplot2 like this

# Libraries
library(ggplot2)
        
# create data
xValue <- 1:10
yValue <- cumsum(rnorm(10))
data <- data.frame(xValue,yValue)

# Plot
ggplot(data, aes(x=xValue, y=yValue)) +
geom_line()

The resulting graph looks like this where the text is shown in weir unicode blocks:

ggplot2 graph with text issue

These unicode blocks look like boxes with four numbers starting with two 0s like:

# Example block
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|00|
|2C|
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I already tried to update and reinstall the tidyverse package, I reopened R-Studio and only called the library ggplot2 in order to have no conflicting packages open, I could not find any similar issue on the internet whatsoever. I hope you can help me out and please do not hesitate if you need further information from me.

R version: 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)

platform: linux mint x86_64

conda environment

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EDIT: For anybody who is interested in solving this issue permanently look here. I had to upgrade to R Version 4.0.3 in order to make ggplot work properly again.

Answer 1

try to solve the problem by changing the text size and the color and theme of you're text? maybe that will work... sth like this:

ggplot(data, aes(x=xValue, y=yValue)) +
geom_line() + theme(text = element_text(size=20))