[R] Ubuntu Linux and X11

[preuth at slf.ch]

Well after installing a debian package of the cran mirors and reconfiguning the
xorg.conf as yuelin li suggested the hist() and other graphical commands now
work properly.
Thanks to the fruitful contributions.
Thomas

Quoting Oleg Sklyar <osklyar at ebi.ac.uk>:

> > Good point.  But on my systems , the upgrade only affected Emacs which
> > 'looked ugly' but still worked.  In other words, nothing "failed" after
> the
> After I updated to Edgy 'convert' of ImageMagick stopped working as well 
> as its 'display' API command and also nedit stopped functioning -- all 
> because of X11 fonts. And in fact, I now recall that I had for while no 
> test in my R plots, I thought some R options were set wrongly. But 
> correcting the paths in xorg.conf solved all these issues.
> 
> Oleg
> 
> 
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>