Marius, Not quite what your asking but try ?bitmap. This can create png images without requiring X
On Wed, 2006-31-05 at 20:55 +0200, Marius Hofert wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with R on a Mac Powerbook G4. As described a couple of > days ago, I would like to create an animation consisting of - say - > 1000 plots (lattice: xyplot, wireframe etc.). Everything works > perfectly fine (thanks to all of you for the suggestions and ideas), > but before I am able to plot (.png's in a for-loop), I have to start > a X11 device. I was wondering if it is possible to start the X11 > device from the R console (as it is tedious to click the X11-button > in the GUI). Searching through the web, I found the command "X11()", > but that _only_ works, if the X11-button in the GUI was pressed > before... otherwise, I get an error message that it wasn't possible > to start the X11 device and I get an additional warning saying that > the connection to the X11 display couldn't be opened. > > Does it work to start such an device from the console? If so, what's > the command to use? > > Thanks very much in advance. > > marius > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html <script src="http://fragments.irrepressible.info/js/fragment-180.js"; type="text/javascript"> </script> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
