[R] running JPEG device on R 1.9.1 using xvfb-run on Linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, David Zhao wrote:

> Does anybody have experience in running jpeg device using xvfb-run on
> linux? I've been having sporadic problem with: /usr/X11/bin/xvfb-run
> /usr/bin/R --no-save < Rinput.txt, with error saying: error in X11
> connection. Especially when I run it from a perl script.

Not sure what `xvfb-run on Linux' is, as it is not on my Linux (FC3).
If you Google it you will find a number of problems reported on Debian 
lists.  Here I would suspect timing.

What I do is to run Xvfb on screen 5 by

Xvfb :5 &
setenv DISPLAY :5

and do not have a problem with the jpeg() or png() devices.  I do have a 
problem with the rgl() package, but then I often do on-screen (on both 32- 
and even more so 64-bit FC3).

> Is there a better way of doing this? or how can I fix the problem.

You really should update your R.

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