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

Question

I am trying to plot using Rstudio. But when I do, plot(cars) which is the basic function, I am getting an Graphics Error in R.
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Answer 1

I had the same error and am on Ubuntu. I did not install R through sudo apt-get install r-base but instead downloaded a specific version, unpacked it and installed it manually with:

./configure --with-readline=no --with-x=no --enable-R-shlib
make
sudo make install

I did not have cairograpghics installed, which is apparently important to build 2D graphics with R. So I installed that with:

sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

Or find the version for your OS here: https://www.cairographics.org/download/

I then uninstalled R again by simply going into the downloaded R folder that I had previously compiled using the above commands mentioned and typed:

sudo make uninstall

And then I configured and installed the same R version again. That did it. The uninstall and reinstall was important, just installing cairographics didnt work, you have to have it installed before using ./configure.