[R] Need R Help

Adaikalavan Ramasamy ramasamy at cancer.org.uk
Wed Jul 20 12:27:52 CEST 2005


Your alternatives are :
a) Use pdf if you can.
b) See help(bitmap) and especially the details section which tells you
about setting the R_GSCMD path to ghostscript
c) Try Xvfb. I do not know much about this. Try a google search.

Regards, Adai


On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 15:12 +0530, bhumir jhaveri wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am newbie in R. I have R installed on Solaris machine and I am connected
> to Solaris machine from Windows using telnet. I want to create png image
> file using R. But when I issue R command from telnet:-
> 
> > png("test.png")
> 
> Following error occurs:
> 
> Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize,
> :
>         unable to start device PNG
> In addition: Warning message:
> unable to open connection to X11 display ''
> 
>   Also, when I checked DISPLAY environment variable, it shows
> 67.145.62.110:0.0
> 
> (67.145.62.110) is windows machine's ip address
> 
> Please suggest any solutions for the stated problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bhumir
> 
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