#8868: Make R graphics work regardless of X and other things
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner: jason, was
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: graphics | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
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Comment(by kcrisman):
Some comments from #8834:
R install guide says:
{{{
Unless you do not want to view graphs on-screen you need ‘X11’ installed,
including its headers and client libraries. For recent Fedora
distributions it means (at least) ‘libX11’, ‘libX11-devel’, ‘libXt’ and
‘libXt-devel’. On Debian we recommend the meta-package ‘xorg-dev’. If you
really do not want these you will need to explicitly configure R without
X11, using --with-x=no.
}}}
But see
[http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/Devices.html
this], which talks about the devices more generally, as well as the
R_DEFAULT_DEVICE variable. In particular, the
[http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/pdf.html
pdf] output, or png via the
[http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/dev2bitmap.html
bitmap] function, could be platform-independent enough to reinstate
doctests for R graphics. Though the bitmap function apparently needs
ghostscript, though, which we also can't always count on being present, I
don't think.
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