R help - Jan 2005 - x11 is not available

Dear list,

I have problems installing R-2.0.1 on SUSE Linux 9.2. I used the
following commands in order install R in 
/usr/local 

./configure --with x11 --with-readline
make
make   install

When starting R and trying to display a plot on the X-window system
output is written to a postscript file. When I try to run x11 with 
>x11()
Error in X11(): X11 is not available.


I do have a running x11 window system with KDE


Any help is appreciated.

Many thanks

Peter Schlattmann

If I remember correctly, the correct command line switch is:

-with-x11

Note the dash.

Sean

On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:41 PM, peter.schlattmann at t-online.de wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have problems installing R-2.0.1 on SUSE Linux 9.2. I used the
> following commands in order install R in
> /usr/local
>
> ./configure --with x11 --with-readline
> make
> make   install
>
> When starting R and trying to display a plot on the X-window system
> output is written to a postscript file. When I try to run x11 with
>
>> x11()
>
> Error in X11(): X11 is not available.
>
>
> I do have a running x11 window system with KDE
>
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Peter Schlattmann
>
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My guess is that you have a 'Desktop' version of SUSE installed which
does not include the needed X11 development environment; from the "R
Installation and Administration" manual:

"Unless you do not want to view graphs on-screen you need X11 installed,
including its headers and client libraries. (On Fedora Core 2 Linux this
means the xorg-x11-devel and xorg-x11-libs RPMs, for example. Older
Linuxen used XFree86-.)"


Good luck,
Gardar

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:41, peter.schlattmann at t-online.de
wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have problems installing R-2.0.1 on SUSE Linux 9.2. I used the
> following commands in order install R in 
> /usr/local 
> 
> ./configure --with x11 --with-readline
> make
> make   install
> 
> When starting R and trying to display a plot on the X-window system
> output is written to a postscript file. When I try to run x11 with 
> 
> >x11()
> 
> Error in X11(): X11 is not available.
> 
> 
> I do have a running x11 window system with KDE
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Peter Schlattmann
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
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