[R] X11 PNG Error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) Please follow the posting guide: a later version of R will solve this.

2) Please read ?png in the version you have: it describes how you need 
write access on a running X server, and how to use Xvfb to get this if 
neccessary.

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Harsh wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am running R 2.6.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 with Rserve on a machine.

The current version is 2.8.1.

> I send R commands from a Windows computer to the R machine  and a few
> commands require the creation of plots on png devices.
>
> I often get the following error:
> Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize,  :
>  unable to start device PNG
>
> I've solved this error at times by restarting Rserve. But it seems to
> crop up frequently. I've installed the libpng libraries on Ubuntu but
> to no avail.
>
> Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Harsh Singhal
> Mu Sigma Decision Systems Inc.
>
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