A simpler short term solution is to execute dev.off() and look for the plot in file Rplots.pdf in the current directory. Depending on the OS of the local computer, you should be able to point a file browser at the EC instance and simply click the file to open in in a pdf viewer on the local machine.
Peter On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:31 AM William Dunlap via R-help < r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > 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. > [[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.
