Did you build from sources or install an RPM? If the former, you probably do not have the X11 development files installed. Something like XFree86-devel-4.2.0-72 (from RH8.0). (My guess is that you do have XFree86-libs.)
rm config.cache and reconfigure and rebuild after installation. On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Stephen Henderson wrote: > Hello > > I'm moving from using R 1.8 for Windows to using Linux (Redhat version 9) > and I cannot get any graphics. However everything else maths, models > equations is fine-- and much quicker. I built from the source file following > the commands in the install manual. > > >plot(1:10, 1:10) > > does nothing! So clearly I have a problem with X Windows. It plots on Rplots.ps, not nothing. > > capabilities() > jpeg png tcltk X11 GNOME libz http/ftp sockets > FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE > libxml fifo cledit IEEE754 bzip2 PCRE > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > > I'm guessing from manuals etc that X11 is the problem. I've tried starting R > with > > R --gui='X11' > > but to no avail! > > I've also had a look at the requirements under R/bin/linux/redhat/9/i386-- > but I'm having some trouble mapping these to the gui installation names, > though Xfree86 which I presume contains libX11.so.6 is installed. This > document also mentions preference for 'gnorpm'. Whats that? > > Has anyone else had this problem? have an idea what is likely missing? or > how to reconfigure R? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
