[R] unable to start device PNG and unable to open connection to X11 display

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Ng Stanley <stanleyngkl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I consulted ?png, and it uses X11. is there any way to save plots into png,
>  without using X11 ?

See "See also" under help(png) for alternatives.  Rule of thumb: If
you get a reply from BR that you don't get the first time you read it,
then read it again - the answer is there.

See also thread '[R] jpeg in batch mode' on 2008-02-21, cf.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-February/155021.html

/Henrik

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>  On 3/3/08, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>  >
>  > Please consult the help page for png.
>  >
>  > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Ng Stanley wrote:
>  >
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > I have installed R on a computational cluster, and am using putty to
>  > access
>  > > R. Please help on how to solve the problem of saving png files.
>  > >
>  > >> png(file="myplot.png", bg="transparent")
>  > > 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 ''
>  > >
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