[R] R can not show plots (in Mac OS X terminal)

[Tony Han Bao]

On 5 Apr 2005, at 19:12, Minyu Chen wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> I am a newbie in Mac. Just installed R and found R did not react on my 
> command plot (I use command line in terminal). It did not give me any 
> error message, either. All it did was just giving out a new command 
> prompt--no reaction to the plot command. I suppose whenever I gives 
> out a command of plot, it will invoke the AquaTerm for a small graph, 
> as I experience in octave. What can I do for it?
>
issue command

 >getOption("device")

to check the output device. The default I have on OS X is X11, do you 
have it installed before compiling R?

It could also be the case that you issued command such as postscript() 
before plot(...) but forgot to issue dev.off().

> Many thanks,
> Minyu Chen
>
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