[R] X11 plotting error

2008-08-12 Thread cls59
Hey everyone, I'm part of a team working at NOAA and we have developed a swan script that analyzes data and generates plots for the forecasters. We are ready to put the script on the cron and call it a summer but a technical issue has popped up which has us puzzled. When we run the script as an

Re: [R] X11 plotting error

2008-08-12 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Hmmm... the short answer is that your call to png() is requiring X11 to generate the plot. Don't know what version you're running, but prior to R 2.7.0, all png() calls needed access to the X server to create the plots (on Unix). But with 2.7.0 and later, png() can be called with type='cairo'