[R] histogram in GNU R....

[Peter Langfelder]

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 using 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>
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> 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_e4 using 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
> >
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