Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Laurence Darby wrote: > > > > > Is there anyway to remove this dependency on X11? > > Please read the help page. R's png device uses X11 for its fonts. You > need fonts from somewhere, and vanilla Unix systems don't come with any > other sets. You can use ghostscript or libgdd or other resources for > other graphics devices. I normally just use an Xvfb frame buffer (but, > hint, it defaults to 12bit and you want a 24bit screen). >
Thanks for your prompt answer, although getting gs to work the way I want or setting up Xvfb, on top of learning R, is too many hoops to jump through, much more than reproducing a small R script I have in gnuplot. Laurence ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
