Thanks, Don. the Cairo package was just what I needed. It was a challenge to get it all set up on the serve since I don't have root privileges. Had to install Pixman and Cairo, figure out to set TMPDIR so R could build the package.
This page was critical is getting Cairo to compile from source: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.cairo/20962 , and the R admin manual http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.pdf explained some of the issues with installing the packages . Jay On Jun 4, 2012, at 5:37 PM, MacQueen, Don wrote: > You could try the Cairo() device from the Cairo package. It's my > understanding (from a time when I was using Xvgb for the same reason) that > Cairo does not depend on X Windows. > > -Don > > -- > Don MacQueen > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > 7000 East Ave., L-627 > Livermore, CA 94550 > 925-423-1062 > > > > > > On 6/4/12 9:31 AM, "Jonathan Levine" <js...@erols.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to run an R script to create a .png file containing a tree >> map on a headless Linux server using Xvfb. When I try to run tmPlot, I >> get the following errors and warnings: >> >> Error in grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 9 >> could not be loaded >> Calls: tmPlot ... <Anonymous> -> widthDetails -> widthDetails.text -> >> grid.Call >> In addition: Warning messages: >> 1: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> ... >> etc. (complete error message below) >> >> The .png file does contain a partially constructed graph. When I try >> something simple like plot(x,y) I get a plot with warnings. >> >> The results from capabilities() and X11Fonts() (see end of message) >> suggest to me that it should work. >> >> Any idea what is happening and how to fix the problem (or work around it)? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jay >> -------------------------- >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) >> 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] treemap_1.0-4 data.table_1.8.0 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 >>> capabilities() >> jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets >> TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE >> libxml fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo >> TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE >>> X11Fonts() >> $serif >> [1] "-*-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $sans >> [1] "-*-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $mono >> [1] "-*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $Times >> [1] "-adobe-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $Helvetica >> [1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $CyrTimes >> [1] "-cronyx-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $CyrHelvetica >> [1] "-cronyx-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $Arial >> [1] "-monotype-arial-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >> $Mincho >> [1] "-*-mincho-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" >> >>> >>> png(file="/tmp/tmpzT4H0e.png",width = 800, height = 800) >>> tmPlot(myDF,index=c(vars[1],vars[2]), >> + vSize=vars[4], >> + vColor=vars[3], >> + type="value") >> Error in grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 9 >> could not be loaded >> Calls: tmPlot ... <Anonymous> -> widthDetails -> widthDetails.text -> >> grid.Call >> In addition: Warning messages: >> 1: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 2: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 3: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >> resolveHJust(x$just, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 4: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >> resolveHJust(x$just, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 5: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 6: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 7: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 8: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 9: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >> resolveHJust(x$just, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> 10: In grid.Call.graphics(L_rect, x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, >> resolveHJust(x$just, : >> X11 protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) >> Execution halted >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.