Wrong list, so re-directing to r-help. Consider r-sig-debian for Debian
questions too, but subscribe or else your posts bounce.
On 4 June 2008 at 07:18, Rongrong wrote:
|
| I am a new R user and I have a question of embedding R to generate png
| On Debian, I installed R by source code.
|
| Now I want to embed R in an application which name is MyApp, and run
| the following syntax:
| png(filename="/tmp/Rplot%03d.png)
| example(rect)
| dev.off()
|
| Unfortunately I get the following error message:
|
| Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize,
| :
| unable to start device PNG
| Calls: png
| In addition: Warning message:
| In png(filename = "/tmp/test%03d.png") :
| unable to open connection to X11 display ''
See the R FAQ.
| But I could run above syntax from R, and the result is correct, I can get
| two png files from /tmp/ folder.
|
| I try to respectively run same syntax(the syntax is:
| capabilities()[["png"]])
| under two modes, the result is different:
| In R the result is TRUE, but when MyApp embed R the result is FALSE
Because in case you have an x11 display, and in the other your don't. No
display, no x11.
| Then I used bitmap(file="/tmp/test") when embed R in MyApp, but get another
| error message:
|
| Error in bitmap(file = "/tmp/test") : sorry, 'gs' cannot be found
Fix that via
$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript
| Besides, I have installed xvfb. What I need do?
Almost there. Wrap your call to MyApp in svfb-run, ie do
$ xvfb-run MyApp [other parameters]
and you get the virtual x11 device that png needs.
R 2.7.0 should also alleviate the need for an x11 device due to its new
cairo-based device code. While you didn't tell as which R version you are
running, I suspect it is not the one the current one.
Dirk
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