[Rd] X11 Problems

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 October 2009 at 11:01, Kay Wanous wrote:
| Well, I feel silly - I just hadn't started the x11 server on the machine!

That would do it.  

For completeness, you _can_ get cairo(), x11(), ... to work in batch mode (or
from a webserver etc pp) if you use the xvfb server which (on Debian at
least) has the handy front-end script xvfb-run in conjunction with graphics
devices like pdf(), png(), ...

Dirk

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