libXrender.so.1 is required to display R plots inline

[jfpuget]

R plots such as the following only create a RPlots.pdf file in the working directory, then issue an error:

x<-1:10 plot(x)

output is:
Error in file(con, "rb"): cannot open the connection

Error in file(con, "rb"): cannot open the connection

Error in file(con, "rb"): cannot open the connection

Error in file(con, "rb"): cannot open the connection

plot without title

Installing the lib in the container with the following fixes the error

sudo apt-get install libxrender1

This issue is linked to #51

[parente]

Need to resolve rebuild problem in #55 first. Then can fix this.

[jfpuget]

Sounds good.

[parente]

It's actually installed in r-notebook (https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/master/r-notebook/Dockerfile#L13) and datascience-notebook. I'm guessing you're using all-spark-notebook where it's not.

[jfpuget]

Right, I should have said it was for all-spark-notebook.
It is good it is already installed in other images.

[parente]

Merged and rebuilt. If you hit any other problems on the latest build, give a shout.

[jfpuget]

Just tested and it works fine. Thanks for the quick build.

[diegocgaona]

I have the same error in a Linux AMI from Amazon in AWS.
I already installed libXrender.x86_64 and tried libXrender.i686, but without results. I see the error, and Jupyter generates a PDF in the directory.
I tried with ggplot() and plot()
Someone knows how to solve it?
Thanks!

[parente]

@diegocgaona which stack image are you using?

[diegocgaona]

@parente Amazon Linux AMI 2015.09.1 (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-60b6c60a

[parente]

I'm sorry, I meant which of the Docker container images in this repository are you using? If you're not using one of them, and are installing directly to the VM, then you need to replicate the Docker image contents, in particular the libxrender1 package installed here: https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/master/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile#L28