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

[Tony Han Bao]

On 5 Apr 2005, at 8:45 pm, Minyu Chen wrote:

> No, the only output is postscipt. As I just install X11, I did not 
> have it before compiling R.
You can try to set the device to x11 by issue the following command,

options(device = 'x11')

and hope now it works.

>
> What to do now except for getting and compiling R Aqua?
Getting and compiling R Aqua is quite easy and you should do so for OS 
X to make use of its quartz and easy pdf related features.

All the best,
>
> Thanks,
> Minyu Chen
> On 5 Apr 2005, at 20:23, Tony Han Bao wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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>>
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