[R] how to make R plot under Linux

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/02/2010 3:46 PM, xin wei wrote:
> hi, Guys:
> thank you so much for all the suggestion. Now I seem to be able to set up
> x11 forwarding in PUTTY. however, I still could not get plot and I get the
> following error msg:
>
>  Error in function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :
>   X11 I/O error while opening X11 connection to 'localhost:20.0'
>
> Is this error msg indication of lack of appropriate plotting package on the
> server or the server is not properly set up for X11 forwarding?

It is likely that you are not running X Windows software on your PC. 

Duncan Murdoch