On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:53 -0800, Jon Dressel wrote: > Hello, > > When launching R from a script, when queried it reports the following > capabilities as false: jpeg, png, x11 and cledit. When R is run from a > terminal session, all of these capabilities are reported true. R is > running on FC4. As the purpose of this script is to output the png file > to a browser, it is unable to complete because of this. Any ideas are > appreciated. We have an identical setup running on FC3 and there is not > a problem. > > Thanks, > > Jon Dressel
Without the script you are using and perhaps how you installed R, it is hard to provide specific details here, especially given the differences you are observing between FC3 and 4. In general, cledit being FALSE suggests that R is being run non-interactively. So I am guessing that you are calling R from the command line in some fashion and running a R program via stdin redirection or running R in BATCH mode. For example: $ echo "capabilities()" | R --slave --vanilla jpeg png tcltk X11 http/ftp sockets libxml fifo TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE cledit iconv NLS FALSE TRUE TRUE Note however that jpeg, png and X11 are all TRUE as I ran the above from a console with X running on my FC 4 laptop using GNOME. That jpeg, png and X11 are FALSE when running your script suggests that the actual machine you are running R on in that instance is not running an X server. That is what I get, for example, when I change to init 3 (text mode) and run the above again from the command line. Are you running a remote login session of some type to a box that is not running X or is your script calling a remote R session? If so and you need to be able to generate plots, you can use bitmap() which does not require X to be running, or you can also use Xvfb on the other box, which is the X virtual frame buffer. See 'man Xvfb' for more information. I do the latter when performing certain analyses on a RHEL server running Oracle 10g, where we have integrated some online reporting functionality for clients. I wrote some R programs which create PNG plots as required. Our DBA's call/run the R programs on the server via TCL code and then put the resultant plots into an HTML page created dynamically. The server is not running X, so we use Xvfb. You might also want to see R FAQ 7.19 How do I produce PNG graphics in batch mode?, which covers the above. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html