On 23 May 2016 at 16:44, Mick Jordan wrote:
| Is it possible to configure and build an R without any graphics support.
| I..e no grDevices or graphics packages?
|
| I tried "--with-x=no --with-cairo=no --with-grDevices=no
| --with-graphics=no"
|
| but it is still building grDevices.
|
| My problem is that I am using experimenting with a compiler that cannot
| compile the Objective-C file, qdCocoa.m, and I don't need graphics for
| this experiment.
|
| Max OS X El Capitan, R-3.2.4.
Yes of course and all of this is documented, and discussed in many places.
i) You still need x11 in most cases for _font metrics_
ii) The key is more or less to build as normal and to run headless
iii) To run headless under a normal Unix OS, you prefix your commands with
xvfb-run
iv) I have no idea what special demands Cupertino puts on this.
Dirk
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