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franzhc
franzhc

Reputation: 39

R Error: Shadow graphics device error

yes I know there are many threads to this above mentioned error, but (at least I) wasn't able to find a solution. So RStudio gives me the following error while trying to plot something:

    Error in RStudioGD() : 
    Shadow graphics device error: r error 4 (R code execution error)

It seems to be a problem with R supporting jpeg and png. Running in R environment

    >capabilities()
    jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua 
    FALSE       FALSE       FALSE       FALSE       FALSE       FALSE
    http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv 
    TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE        TRUE 
    NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl 
    TRUE       FALSE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE

shows exactly that. cairo and pango are installed. And I have no idea what else to do. Here you can find the code I'm trying to run. I installed the packages magrittr, ggplot2, dplyr, cowplot and patchwork. Furthermore I'm running the latest RStudio version on linux. R itself is also updated.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: For anyone stumbling over the same problem: A complete re-installation of R, RStudio and most depencies solved the problem somehow.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2294

Answers (2)

Dr. Arun
Dr. Arun

Reputation: 351

I am using R version 3.6.3 (built from source) and RStudio 1.2.5033, on Amazon Linux 4.14.154-99.181.amzn1.x86_64. I first did:

sudo yum -y install libX11-devel

I then re-installed R from source using the following options

sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/R/$3.6.3 --enable-memory-profiling --enable-R-shlib --with-blas --with-lapack --with-x=yes --with-readline=no

The key here is --with-x=yes. Finally I did:

sudo make

sudo make install

After that I was able to generate plots within RStudio. For reference, my capabilities are now:

> capabilities()
   jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua    http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo 
  FALSE        TRUE       FALSE       FALSE       FALSE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 
 cledit       iconv         NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl 
  FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE

Upvotes: 0

Federico de Leon
Federico de Leon

Reputation: 21

A bit late, but today I had the same problem. I restarted my session with Ctrl + Shift + F10 and it worked.

Upvotes: 2

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