[R] R on X11 under Linux (newbie)

[Dumblauskas, Jerry]

I think this helps.

Are you saying the RGUI I see when I launch the windows version of R will not show in Linux, just any commands that display graphics?

I'll do a quick test.

Thx

 

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From: Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk [mailto:Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:37 PM
To: Dumblauskas, Jerry
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: RE: [R] R on X11 under Linux (newbie)

On 28-Apr-08 21:22:51, Dumblauskas, Jerry wrote:
> I just installed R on my 64 bit SUSE Linux system
> -- I compiled with the default x windows support on..
> 
> This may be a newbie question (apologies in advance)-- but how does 
> this show up in X?
> 
> I have SSH'd in to my box and set my display -- I can run xcalc OK -- 
> but when I hit the R binary it just goes to the command line -- if 
> does not give me an x-window.

If I understand your problem correctly, you have logged into a remote box and are using a "terminal" window at that point. If you enter the command R in that terminal, then you will be operating R via command lines in that same terminal.

If you want a separate X window with R running in it, the usual procedure would be to open a new X window from you current command line. One possibility is simply to enter the command

  xterm &

(the "&" is important -- it will "detach" the new window from the terminal ijn which you started it). Then you can switch to the new window and run R in that.

Any graphics generated by R will cause a new X window to appear in which the graphics will be displayed.
You can generate additional X windows for additional graphic (keeping what you have already) with X11().

If you're logging in via ssh, you may need to log in using the command

  ssh -X <host>

or

  ssh -X <user>@<host>

to ensure that the remote X client has permission to send its X requests to the machine you are sitting at.

Hoping this helps,
Ted.

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