[R] Plots default to Rplots.ps

[Martyn Plummer]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:22, Simon Woodhead wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Hello I'm a newbie to the list. I recently installed R on a Redhat 9.0 
> system, when I come to plot anything it does not bring up a graphics 
> window but rather stores it in a file "Rplots.ps". I tried x11() but 
> that doesn't bring up a window either. I would greatly appreciate any 
> advice.

It looks like you have compiled R without support for X11, so the
default plotting device is postscript(). You need to install the
XFree86-devel package and recompile, or else use the ready made RPM
packages on CRAN:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/9/i386/

Martyn