You could try the Cairo() device from the Cairo package. It's my understanding (from a time when I was using Xvgb for the same reason) that Cairo does not depend on X Windows.
-Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 6/4/12 9:31 AM, "Jonathan Levine" <js...@erols.com> wrote: >I am trying to run an R script to create a .png file containing a tree >map on a headless Linux server using Xvfb. When I try to run tmPlot, I >get the following errors and warnings: > >Error in grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 9 >could not be loaded >Calls: tmPlot ... <Anonymous> -> widthDetails -> widthDetails.text -> >grid.Call >In addition: Warning messages: >1: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >... >etc. (complete error message below) > >The .png file does contain a partially constructed graph. When I try >something simple like plot(x,y) I get a plot with warnings. > >The results from capabilities() and X11Fonts() (see end of message) >suggest to me that it should work. > >Any idea what is happening and how to fix the problem (or work around it)? > > >Thanks, > >Jay >-------------------------- > >> sessionInfo() >R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) >Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >attached base packages: >[1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods >[8] base > >other attached packages: >[1] treemap_1.0-4 data.table_1.8.0 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 >> capabilities() > jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE > libxml fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo > TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE >> X11Fonts() >$serif >[1] "-*-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$sans >[1] "-*-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$mono >[1] "-*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$Times >[1] "-adobe-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$Helvetica >[1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$CyrTimes >[1] "-cronyx-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$CyrHelvetica >[1] "-cronyx-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$Arial >[1] "-monotype-arial-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >$Mincho >[1] "-*-mincho-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > >> >> png(file="/tmp/tmpzT4H0e.png",width = 800, height = 800) >> tmPlot(myDF,index=c(vars[1],vars[2]), >+ vSize=vars[4], >+ vColor=vars[3], >+ type="value") >Error in grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 9 >could not be loaded >Calls: tmPlot ... <Anonymous> -> widthDetails -> widthDetails.text -> >grid.Call >In addition: Warning messages: >1: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >2: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >3: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >resolveHJust(x$just, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >4: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >resolveHJust(x$just, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >5: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >6: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >7: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >8: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >9: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >resolveHJust(x$just, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >10: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >resolveHJust(x$just, : > X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >Execution halted >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
