From edd at debian.org  Sun Apr 26 19:03:35 2009
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:03:35 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded
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On 24 April 2009 at 04:50, Petr Novak wrote:
| Hi,
| we are using R installed on several linux computer - mostly debian lenny
| and also ubuntu, all 64 bit. Approx.two week ago, I started getting the
| following error when I tried to plot().
| 
| Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded
| In addition: Warning message:
| In X11() : unable to load shared library
| '/usr/lib64/R/modules//R_X11.so':
|   /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: symbol png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8, version
| PNG12_0 not defined in file libpng12.so.0 with link time reference
| 
| This error occurs now on all five computer we are using (due to
| aupdate???)
| 
| we are using  R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) installed using aptitude from
| repositories.
| 
| Does anybody have idea what is going on?

Nope, not from what you wrote.

My amd64 builds of R on Ubuntu---using Vincent and Michael's builds of my
Debian packages---continue to work fine, including use of x11.  I tend to
keep them current to Ubuntu repos too (but I am still using Ubuntu 8.10 not
9.04). 

Dirk

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[Rd] Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded
Dirk Eddelbuettel