From edd @ending from debi@n@org  Thu Jul 26 03:35:13 2018
From: edd @ending from debi@n@org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:35:13 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Possible To Enable Building R With Cairo But Without X11
 Dependencies?
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On 25 July 2018 at 21:04, Stephen Marsh wrote:
| So the Homebrew community dropped support for --with-cairo which is a shame
| because --without-x --with-cairo is an important combination for any
| environment that might need to generate graphics without X11 (or related)
| dependencies (macOS, headless linux servers).

For headless use on Linux, just build as usual and run via `xvfb-run`. If you
need to create cairo-based graphics, install one of the (at least two) cairo
device packages from CRAN.

Dirk

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[Rd] Possible To Enable Building R With Cairo But Without X11 Dependencies?
Dirk Eddelbuettel