When you build R by yourself, you need to make sure all its dependencies are installed; I usually use this in Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get build-dep r-base-dev As Prof Ripley said, your problem is likely to be a missing cairo package in your system (something like libcairo2-dev, I guess). Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Tengfei Yin <yinteng...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi dear all, > > In my laptop(ubuntu 11.10 64bit), I maintained a released R (2.14) and a > developmental R, I can specify qplot(..., alpha = ) in R 2.14 , but when I > try to use transparency in developmental R, I got a warning message and the > plot is clearly not I want. > > minimal example: >> qplot(data = mtcars, x = mpg, y = cyl, alpha = cyl) > Warning message: > In grid.Call.graphics(L_points, x$x, x$y, x$pch, x$size) : > semi-transparency is not supported on this device: reported only once per > page >> sessionInfo() > R Under development (unstable) (2012-01-21 r58156) > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > [8] base > > other attached packages: > [1] ggplot2_0.8.9 proto_0.3-9.2 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.7.1 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] digest_0.5.1 > > > I have no idea what happened here, because if I miss some important system > dependencies, why it's still working in R 2.14? > > Any suggestions or possible solution will be really appreciated. Thanks > > Tengfei > > -- > Tengfei Yin > MCDB PhD student > 1620 Howe Hall, 2274, > Iowa State University > Ames, IA,50011-2274 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
