In addition to the other suggestions, try typing x11() before using hist(). That *should* start a graphics window. If it does not, then type capabilities() and see if "X11" is TRUE. -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 Lab cell 925-724-7509 ?On 9/7/18, 1:26 AM, "R-help on behalf of akshay kulkarni" <r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of akshay_e4 at hotmail.com> wrote: dear members, I am running R on Linux AWS ec2 instance. When I try to create a histogram in it, I am running into problems: > xht <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) > hist(xht) > when I type hist(xht), it goes to the next prompt. More importantly, there is no error message. So, the most probable conclusion is that the command gets executed. But there is no pop up screen with a histogram, and nothing else... whats going on? How can I circumvent the help of histogram(which is not available in GNU R)? summary(xht) would help, but not much. Any other function that can give information, in LINUX R, that a histogram gives, in LINUX CLI? Very many thanks for your time and effort... Yours sincerely, AKSHAYM KULKARNI [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.