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I'm running R from Unix and would like to see all output without any pop-ups. So, for example, if in unix I run 

R -f test.r

Where test.r is 

value = pnorm(rnorm(10000))
hist(value,breaks=10)

I would like the output to include a histogram drawn in the terminal. Is this possible? I'm assuming I need some kind of Unix plotting package.

erin
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    Maybe this? http://stackoverflow.com/a/9151960/1201032 – flodel Jul 19 '13 at 14:34
  • possible duplicate of [How can I generate ascii "graphical output" from R?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9151884/how-can-i-generate-ascii-graphical-output-from-r) – David LeBauer Dec 04 '14 at 05:49

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There is txtplot package. Here is an example from the manual on how to output a histogram:

## text based barchart
x <- factor(c("orange", "orange", "red", "green", "green", "red", "yellow", "purple", "purple", orange"))
txtbarchart(x)

If you need more complex plots I would recommend you take a look at gnuplot and Rgnuplot package that allows to call it from R. gnuplot has "dumb" terminal type which outputs ascii graphics.

Alex Vorobiev
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