Thanks Duncan. I have since found that building cairo and
adding '--with-cairo' to the configure command solves this
problem, and also gives (at least to my eyes) much nicer looking 2D png()
plots.
Cheers
-- Rory
On Aug 10, 2009 12:54pm, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> rory.wins...@gmail.com wrote:
> Following on...
> Sorry folks, it looks like I have misdiagnosed the issue. When I connect
> to the server using an X client and start up the
> newly built R instance, I see capabilities() shows X11 support as
> expected. So this changes the character of my query
> somewhat: As I was hoping to run R in non-interactive mode (hence not
> using an X client in the
> first instance), is there any way to run R in "headless" mode, so that
> graphical output works, even in contexts
> where DISPLAY may not be set? (eg Java has an equivalent headless
> option that allows its graphical libraries to operate in such a
> situation, so I guess it must be possible, in theory
> at least).
> I'm not an X11 user, but I believe the test systems do this using Xvfb,
> the "virtual" X server.
> Duncan Murdoch
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