[R] PNG diver problem

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> > I think it works in Linux too if you explicitly set you DISPLAY
> > variable (w/ Sys.putenv()), provided that the display is active and
> > you have the permissions to access it when the code runs. Windows has
> > no such thing and will not let you do anything without having the
> > display open anyway...
> 
> It works for me on Solaris and my XIG Linux Xsever without doing anything
> at all, BTW, but I suspect I do have permissions set for ripley at gannet,
> say.

Actually it doesn't work on Linux... The issue is that the x11 device
is not *loaded*, i.e. it is in the shared library startup code. That
could take a while to figure out how to override. However, there seems
to be nothing wrong with this:

R --vanilla < try.R > try.Rout

and try.R containing

png("try.png")
plot(0)


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