On 26/06/2014 07:46, Preussner, Jens wrote:
Dear r-developers,
I currently face an issue while compiling R from source on a debian wheezy.
When running the configure script (particularly with --enable-R-shlib
--prefix=/packages/R/3.1.0/) I get a Makefile and the output
...
Interfaces supported: X11
External libraries: readline
Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, NLS
Options enabled: shared R library, shared BLAS, R profiling
...
After compiling and checking the capabilities, R tells me the following:
capabilities()
jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets
FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE
libxml fifo cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
I already have R on another machine with jpeg/png capabilities, also compiled
on my own. I crosschecked the versions of the libpng-* and libjpeg-* packages
installed there and could not find any difference. Also returning to R-3.0.2
doesn't work.
A last thing: The same question came up back in 2009, but there was no answer
on the list.. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-December/222967.html
Any suggestions how to get more information on what is going on here?
As you do not have capabilities for cairo nor X11, read ?png, e.g.
type: character string, one of ‘"Xlib"’ or ‘"quartz"’ (some OS X
builds) or ‘"cairo"’. The latter will only be available if
the system was compiled with support for cairo - otherwise
‘"Xlib"’ will be used. The default is set by
‘getOption("bitmapType")’ - the ‘out of the box’ default is
‘"quartz"’ or ‘"cairo"’ where available, otherwise ‘"Xlib"’.
R can be compiled without support for some or all of the types for
each of these devices: this will be reported if you attempt to use
them on a system where they are not supported. For ‘type =
"Xlib"’ they may not be usable unless the X11 display is available
to the owner of the R process.
So, the only type available to you appears to be "Xlib", and that
process does not have access to an X server.
The strongly recommended solution is to get cairographics working: see
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Useful-libraries-and-programs
Many thanks and best regards,
Jens
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