[Rd] X11 Problems

[Kay Wanous]

Well, I feel silly - I just hadn't started the x11 server on the machine!

Thanks for the help.

   -- Kay

zong-pei.han at imm.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> The message "unable to open connection to X11 display ''" means
> your own machine cannot open a xterm from the machine running R.
> You have to have an X server running on your own machine, and
> allow X display from the machine running R.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Dr Zong-Pei Han
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> Computational Biology Research Group
> University of Oxford
> http://www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk/
> -------------------------------------
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Kay Wanous wrote:
> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:33:54 -0400
> From: Kay Wanous <kwanous at cs.earlham.edu>
> To: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] X11 Problems
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting x11 to work with R.  (This is on Debian testing.)  I
> installed r-base and r-base-dev, and then r-cran-cairodevice.  I also tried
> installing the Cairo package within R, which appears to work fine.
> 
> This what I'm seeing:
> 
>> capabilities()
>     jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
>   libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
> 
>> x11()
> Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma, d$colortype,  :
>   unable to start device X11cairo
> In addition: Warning message:
> In x11() : unable to open connection to X11 display ''
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Kay
> 
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