You may have to install X11 stuff to your ec2 instance. E.g., googling for "ec2 X11 forwarding" showed things like the following:
Re: X11 forwarding to access AWS EC2 Linux instance Posted by: wilderfield <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/profile.jspa?userID=433982> Posted on: Apr 5, 2018 11:31 AM [image: in response to: LE M.] <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=574740#574740> in response to: LE M. <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=574740#574740> [image: Click to reply to this thread] <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=841377> Reply <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=841377> x11 <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/tags/x11> sudo yum install xorg-x11-xauth The above is all I needed to get X11 forwarding working over ssh When ssh-ing to the instance, use the -X flag Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 1:26 AM, akshay kulkarni <akshay...@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@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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
