similar to: unable to start device PNG and unable to open connection to X11 display

Hi there, I want to run an R script on a cluster with qsub. Obviously I don't want to display any X window, but I want use png() or something else to write out images. Unfortunately I get the following error message: > png(filename = " ALL.png", width = 480, height = 480, pointsize = 12, bg = "white", res = NA) Error in X11(paste("png::", filename,

I have updated my R to the current R version (1.8.1) using apt-get of the R binaries for debian sid in cran. Now, when I do: png(file="myplot.png") I get: Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize, : unable to start device PNG In addition: Warning message: No png support in this version of R what do I have to do to get the

Hi, I got this error while using png() function in RedHat 9.0. "Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize unable to start device PNG" It looks like the system lacks some library for graphics. Can anyone tell me which rpm I should install to have png() function work with out problem? Thanks ...

Hi all, When I ran a script containing the following codes: png(paste(savepath,"a_rnaplot.png",sep = ""),width = fwidth, height = fheight,pointsize = fpointsize); data_deg <- AffyRNAdeg(data_cel) plotAffyRNAdeg(data_deg,col=cols,lty=1,lwd = "2") #a <- par("fin") legend("bottomright",sampleNames(data_cel),col=cols,lty=1)

Hi, I run R on a unix server and login from a Mac with ssh -X. When I want to run a graphics function like hist, I get the following x11 message: Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma, d$colortype,  :    unable to start device X11cairo In addition: Warning message: In function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :   unable to open connection to

Full_Name: Stephane Bonneaud Version: 2.6.2 OS: OSX - Leopard 10.5.2 Submission from: (NULL) (195.221.233.130) Hello, I have a R code file containing the following code: ------- # This code is in r2jpg.r # myData is filled here with some data from a file jpeg(filename="test.jpg",width=960,height=720,pointsize=16,quality=100) plot(myData,xlab="anything",

Hi, I upgraded my system from FC4 to FC5. So now I have R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23). But I ran into a problem with starting device X11 (message below). > X11() can't find X11 font Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1 else gamma, : unable to start device X11 Any idea? Thanks, L. -- Li-Jung Liang, Ph.D. Department of Biostatistics UCLA

Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> brechbuehler at gmail.com wrote: >>> Full_Name: Christian Brechbuehler >>> Version: 2.4.1, 2.5.1, OS: Ubuntu GNU/Linux >>> Submission from: (NULL) (24.61.47.236) >>> >>> > <snipped> >>> Example (start R without DISPLAY from bash): >>> % DISPLAY=3D R >>> >

Hi All, I am running R 2.6.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 with Rserve on a machine. I send R commands from a Windows computer to the R machine and a few commands require the creation of plots on png devices. I often get the following error: Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize, : unable to start device PNG I've solved this error at times by

And on that note, here is a function that I use to get around it: -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Horner Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:01 AM To: ryszard.czerminski at novartis.com Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R CMD BATCH: unable to start device PNG ryszard.czerminski

Dear all, Further to my previous message I now made a one-line convencience function to export your currently active graphics window/plot to either Word or Powerpoint in Office-native vector-based DrawingML format using either export2ppt(file="plot.pptx") or export2doc(file="plot.docx") : see

Hello, I 've just re-installed R 2.9.0 on ubuntu 9.04. I do not understand why I am unable to use simple device function such as jpeg(), png()... > png() Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize, : unable to start device PNG In addition: Warning message: In png() : no png support in this version of R > capabilities() jpeg

I cannot generate png files running R2.2.1 on a SunOS 5.9 machine. See below. I did a search on this problem and people who have virtually the same error have solved the problem by installing or updating libpng . We downloaded libpng from Sun but still the problem remains. Does a path within R need to be set to this file or does the problem indicate that libpng was not installed properly? I

Dear colleagues, Saving a plot with pdf gives a very nice result: pdf("myplot.pdf") par(font=1,family='serif') plot(pressure) dev.off() Doing the very same with other formats (png, jpeg, tiff) gives far worse results. Is there anything to do to make a plot in some other format than pdf look like the pdf? Hardly any journal accepts pdf files for figures, and most do accept png

Dear all, I'm trying to produce 2 png files, one consisting of an image plot and a color-table (also an image plot) and the other one consisting of 4 image plots and a color table. I'd like the color table to be exactly the same. The way I proceded is the following: for one plot and the color-table png(file = png.file, width = 650, height = 800, pointsize = 16) layout(matrix(c(1, 2),

I get this with R 2.7.2 (and 2.7.1, and 2.6.2, but NOT 2.4.0): > X11() # this one opens up okay > X11("foo") Error: Couldn't find per display information $ and R crashes out back to my shell prompt. If I do X11("foo") as a first command I get a meaningful error and my R prompt back: > X11("foo") Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height,

If I run the following example from: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/grid/doc/grobs.pdf > grid.newpage() > pushViewport(viewport(w = 0.5, h = 0.5)) > myplot <- gTree(name = "myplot", children = gList(rectGrob(name = "box", + gp = gpar(col = "grey")), xaxisGrob(name = "xaxis"))) > grid.draw(myplot) >

Full_Name: Knut krueger Version: 2.1.1 OS: xp Home Submission from: (NULL) (149.225.134.34) In the png function the value res seems to be inactive: bmp(filename = "c:/r/Rplot%03d.bmp", width = 1920, height = 1920, pointsize = 48, bg = "white", res = 2400) result: witdh/heigth = 1920 <> 20.32 mm ppi=2400 Results as expected png(filename =

I'm trying to use R in a cgi script to produce graphics files in png format, and I'm having a problem. My shell command line looks like this: R </usr/dfs/auction/eligibility.R --no-save >/tmp/R.out and the line in the R script looks like this: png ("foo.png", pointsize=18) If I run outside the cgi context, it runs great. When run as in a cgi script, I get this error

Dear List, I am a new Mac user and I am having problem generating png (or jpeg) using the GUI version of R. I installed R-2.3.1.dmg (custom install with everything selected) and X11User.pkg but I am still getting the following X11 connection error when I try to generate a png (or a jpeg): Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize, :