Marius,
Not quite what your asking but try ?bitmap.
This can create png images without requiring X

On Wed, 2006-31-05 at 20:55 +0200, Marius Hofert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am working with R on a Mac Powerbook G4. As described a couple of  
> days ago, I would like to create an animation consisting of - say -  
> 1000 plots (lattice: xyplot, wireframe etc.). Everything works  
> perfectly fine (thanks to all of you for the suggestions and ideas),  
> but before I am able to plot (.png's in a for-loop), I have to start  
> a X11 device. I was wondering if it is possible to start the X11  
> device from the R console (as it is tedious to click the X11-button  
> in the GUI). Searching through the web, I found the command "X11()",  
> but that _only_ works, if the X11-button in the GUI was pressed  
> before... otherwise, I get an error message that it wasn't possible  
> to start the X11 device and I get an additional warning saying that  
> the connection to the X11 display couldn't be opened.
> 
> Does it work to start such an device from the console? If so, what's  
> the command to use?
> 
> Thanks very much in advance.
> 
> marius
> 
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