On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Sharpie <ch...@sharpsteen.net> wrote:
> I had this exact same problem last summer when attempting to set up an
> automated process involving image generation on a remote server. Since I
> didn't have admin rights to the server, I ended up switching to the Cairo
> package for image generation as it uses the Cairo library rather than X11 as
> the back end.
>
> The other solution involved setting some sort of obscure, arcane X11
> permission that I can't recall right now. All I can recall is that finding
> it was a frustrating half-day of Google searching and digging through man
> pages.
It should be that 'cairo' is the default type for png (and other
bitmap) generation:
> getOption("bitmapType")
[1] "cairo"
The png() function has an option for 'type='. If you use type="cairo"
(which is got from getOption, should be default) then an X server
isn't needed. If you try type="X11" then one is. Apple fanboys can try
type="quartz".
Again, this is all convoluted with what was compiled into R, and what
does capabilities() etc tell us.
No word back from the original poster yet - Jillian Kozyra, are we helping???
Barry
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