[R] Problem with X11

Lorenzo Isella
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 06:56:38 -0000

Hello!
Today on debian testing R 3.2.5 was delivered among the updates.
The X11 problem is no longer there.
Cheers

Lorenzo

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 02:28:44PM -0400, Tom Wright
wrote:
>I don't have my debian box available so can't confirm. But I would
try
>$apt-get install libpng
>
>On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at
gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> I have never had this problem before. I run debian testing on my box
>> and I have recently update my R environment.
>> Now, see what happens when I try the most trivial of all plots
>>
>> plot(seq(22))
>>>
>> Error in (function (display = "", width, height, pointsize,
gamma, bg,
>> :
>>  X11 module cannot be loaded
>>  In addition: Warning message:
>>  In (function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma,
bg,  :
>>    unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so':
>>      /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0: version `PNG12_0' not
>>      found (required by /usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so)
>>
>> and this is my sessionInfo()
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 3.2.4 Revised (2016-03-16 r70336)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8
>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
>>    [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>>     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>     [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>>
>> Anybody understands what is going on here?
>> Regards
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>
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