[R] R can not show plots (in Mac OS X terminal)

George W. Gilchrist gwgilc at wm.edu
Thu Apr 7 02:50:15 CEST 2005


This is incorrect. x11(display="0:0") opens an x11 graphics device from the
terminal assuming (1) that you have installed X11 from Apple's website and
(2) that x11 is running.

Cheers, George


On 4/6/05 5:47 AM, "David Ruau" <David.Ruau at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> You should use X11. It doesn't work in Terminal.
> You can use the basic Xterm in X11 or like I do Aterm.
> 
> David Ruau
> 
> On Apr 5, 2005, at 20:12, Minyu Chen wrote:
> 
>> Dear all:
>> 
>> I am a newbie in Mac. Just installed R and found R did not react on my
>> command plot (I use command line in terminal). It did not give me any
>> error message, either. All it did was just giving out a new command
>> prompt--no reaction to the plot command. I suppose whenever I gives
>> out a command of plot, it will invoke the AquaTerm for a small graph,
>> as I experience in octave. What can I do for it?
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Minyu Chen
>> 
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