I want to use R plotting on a remote server. I'm on a mac, I have XQuartz installed, and I am connecting with ssh -X -Y NAME@SERVER
(results are the same whether I use just X or Y or both). Once I'm on the remote server I can open xeyes
and plot in python with:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2],[4,2])
plt.show()
But I can't figure out how to plot in R. When I type x11()
I get Error in x11(): X11 is not available
. Since I can get an X11 window with python and xeyes, I imagine I'm missing some sort of R package, but I'm at a loss as to what it is. Any help is appreciated!
$ R
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> x11()
Error in x11() : X11 is not available
>
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /PATH/TO/Ubuntu18.04/rstats-4.0.3/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /PATH/TO/Ubuntu18.04/rstats-4.0.3/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US
[4] LC_COLLATE=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_MESSAGES=en_US
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.3
>
>
> capabilities()
jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl
TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
$ echo $DISPLAY
SERVER:14.0