[R] quartz() on MAC OSX

[hadley wickham]

On 5/22/07, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
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> On 22/5/07 6:48 AM, "hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Rolf,
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> > Two possible solutions:
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> >  * DISPLAY=0.0.0.0:0 R - and then X11() should work without having to use
> > xterm
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> >  * install.packages("CarbonEL"); library(CarbonEL); quartz()
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> It is clear that life is determined to frustrate me.  I had a look at CRAN
> just now and could find no sign of a package called "CarbonEL".  The list
> jumps from "car" to "cat" --- no "Carbon" of any flavour.  What gives?
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> Also I tried setting the DISPLAY (probably incorrectly, since I don't
> understand what's going on).  I used
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>     > Sys.setenv(DISPLAY="0.0.0.0:0 R")
>     > X11()
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> And got the error message
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>     Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded

Sorry, just type
DISPLAY=0.0.0.0:0 R
at the command prompt

Hadley