[R] how to make R plot under Linux

[Zhuanshi He]

Hi,

You just need to install X11 windows software on windows, such as
xming, and start xming before ssh -X userID at remotehost

Hope this helps.


On 2/22/10, xin wei <xinwei at stat.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>  thank you for reply. I just type: hist(x) from SSH terminal, expecting a
>  histogram to pop up like what i got under windows.....instead I got the
>  following error msg:
>
>  Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma,
>  d$colortype,  :
>   unable to start device X11cairo
>  In addition: Warning message:
>  In function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :
>   unable to open connection to X11 display ''
>
>  Would you give some clues what is going on?
>
>  thanks
>
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