R help - Jul 2007 - working with R graphics remotely

Hi netters,

Now I'm connecting from my local windows machine to a remote linux machine 
and launch R out there using SSH. When I tried to create grahics, like 
using plot or heatmap, I cannot see the output. Maybe a new R window 
displaying the graphics has popped out in the remote machine? Or I need to 
change some settings for the graphics to display? I don't know. I googled 
it and tried dev.copy but it didn't work. Can anyone help me here? I need 
to be able to see the output graphics and save it to a file (like jpeg)

Thanks a lot!

_________________________________________________________________
?????????????????????????????? MSN Hotmail??  http://www.hotmail.com

You need to forward the X11 window to your local machine, which would need 
to be running an X server.  We do this using Exceed and PUTTY settings, 
but your sysadmins will be able to help you: it is not a question about R 
per se.

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, zhihua li wrote:
> Hi netters,
>
> Now I'm connecting from my local windows machine to a remote linux
machine
> and launch R out there using SSH. When I tried to create grahics, like
using
> plot or heatmap, I cannot see the output. Maybe a new R window displaying
the
> graphics has popped out in the remote machine? Or I need to change some 
> settings for the graphics to display? I don't know. I googled it and
tried
> dev.copy but it didn't work. Can anyone help me here? I need to be able
to
> see the output graphics and save it to a file (like jpeg)
>
> Thanks a lot!
-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

On your Windows machine you need to run (1) an X server and (2) an ssh client.
Xming and putty, respectively, are among the free ones.

First start Xming (you can configure it using XLaunch, which is included with
Xming, or you can run Xming from the Windows command line specifying the
configuration parameters via command line flags).  Then run
putty.   Be sure you have X11 forwarding enabled in putty's
  Connection | SSH | Tunnel
screen.  Googling will locate much info for these programs.

On 7/1/07, zhihua li <lzhtom at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi netters,
>
> Now I'm connecting from my local windows machine to a remote linux
machine
> and launch R out there using SSH. When I tried to create grahics, like
> using plot or heatmap, I cannot see the output. Maybe a new R window
> displaying the graphics has popped out in the remote machine? Or I need to
> change some settings for the graphics to display? I don't know. I
googled
> it and tried dev.copy but it didn't work. Can anyone help me here? I
need
> to be able to see the output graphics and save it to a file (like jpeg)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> ?????????????????????????????? MSN Hotmail??  http://www.hotmail.com
>
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>