Can't Load X11 in R After Os X Yosemite Upgrade

Can't load X11 in R after OS X Yosemite upgrade

Execute the following in a terminal window:

locate libSM.6.dylib

or do it from an R console:

system("locate libSM.6.dylib")

On my Yosemite install it's in /opt/X11/lib/libSM.6.dylib.

If your setup is similar, then:

sudo ln -s /usr/X11 /opt/X11 

should help fix this temporarily, but I'd keep looking for a Yosemite R package (since that will accommodate all the changes Apple made to the filesystem structure).

RStudio on Mac OS X 10.13 getting X11 is not available error when trying to use fix()

Putting this as an answer in case other find this.

This particular issue was due to using Homebrew R on macOS which (at the time of this Q) didn't compile with X11 support.

I should have had the OP execute capabilities() first. That would have displayed something like:

##       jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua    http/ftp 
##       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 
##    sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv         NLS     profmem 
##       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 
##      cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl 
##       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 

If X11 is FALSE, then you have an R installation w/o support for X11 and should use the macOS R distribution from CRAN.

Error in loading rgl package with Mac OS X

I was having this problem with rgl 0.93.996 on OSX 10.9.2, but then after reinstalling several times I saw "Installing rgl - error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted"

A quick search took me here https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-March/009077.html

Then I was finally able to get it to work by downloading XQuartz https://www.xquartz.org So it was X11 that was the problem in my case.

Installing rgl on Ubuntu and Mac: X11 not found

All the mentioned answers are correct; however, none is for Mac.

In my case (I am a Mac user), I solved the problem by installing XQuartz and restarting R.

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