From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Mon Aug 10 13:54:26 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:54:26 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Error Building R + X11 on SuSe 10S
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rory.winston at gmail.com wrote:
> Following on...
>
> Sorry folks, it looks like I have misdiagnosed the issue. When I connect to  
> the server using an X client and start up the
> newly built R instance, I see capabilities() shows X11 support as expected.  
> So this changes the character of my query
> somewhat: As I was hoping to run R in non-interactive mode (hence not using  
> an X client in the
> first instance), is there any way to run R in "headless" mode, so that  
> graphical output works, even in contexts
> where DISPLAY may not be set? (eg Java has an equivalent headless
> option that allows its graphical libraries to operate in such a situation,  
> so I guess it must be possible, in theory
> at least).
I'm not an X11 user, but I believe the test systems do this using Xvfb, 
the "virtual" X server.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Error Building R + X11 on SuSe 10S
Duncan Murdoch