[Rd] Re: Producing PNG on Debian Linux (was the false bug report, Re: [Rd] png output requires X connection (PR#1165))

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
>   "Brian" == Brian D Ripley <Prof> writes:
>   Brian>  Already done in R-devel:
>
> Thanks!
>
>   Brian> NB: on our servers there is an X11 display available to cron jobs.
>
> Hm. I just added x11() to the script snipped of yours:
>
> edd@sonny:~> cat /tmp/R.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo | R -q --no-save <<EOF
> bitmap("test.png")
> plot(1:10)
> graphics.off()
> x11()
> EOF
>
> but starting this under at(1)
>
> edd@sonny:~> echo /tmp/R.sh | at now
> warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
> job 57 at 2001-11-18 08:31
>
> yields an error:
>
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
> To: edd@eddelbuettel.com
> Subject: Output from your job       57
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 08:31:59 -0600
>
> > bitmap("test.png")
> > plot(1:10)
> > graphics.off()
> > x11()
> Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, gamma, colortype, maxcubesize) :
> 	unable to start device X11
> Execution halted
>
> How does Solaris do this, and how can we get Linux to do the same?

Don't know: suspect it is a permissions / Xauth thing.   To be precise,
I've only ever tested my Solaris server (ex my desktop machine).

I tried

auk% cat /tmp/R.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo | R -q --no-save <<EOF
png("/tmp/test.png")
plot(1:10)
graphics.off()
EOF

auk% echo /tmp/R.sh | at now

and it worked and wrote test.png.


Brian

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