On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 at 05:43PM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > > There should be a better way to tell R to build with PNG support. It > > seems like it shouldn't need to link in X libraries just to spit out a > > PNG file. > > I agree, but I think that's just how they do it (or you can use Cairo > or Quartz (Mac)). See > http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/png.html > and > http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/dev2bitmap.html. > Also, from the R-help list: > > "Now it may be that you can't compile PNG support without X11 being > there at compile time, but if you can compile R on a workstation with > X11 support then that R should work find on your server to produce > pngs even without X11 support there and then."
Putting aside the build problems...I installed xorg-dev on my Ubuntu machine, and although R claimed it found everything it wants, the doctests are still failing. Ideas? Installing with 'sage -f' should overwrite the old R installation, right? Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
