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 <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> rory.winston@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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