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Use Cairo in R on macOS
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  1. Install the quartz-wm package in MacPorts:
sudo port install quartz-wm
  1. Create symlinks in the right place:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/X11/lib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libSM.6.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libSM.6.dylib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libICE.6.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libICE.6.dylib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libX11.6.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libXext.6.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libXext.6.dylib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libXrender.1.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libXrender.1.dylib
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libXt.6.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib      
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libXmu.6.dylib /opt/X11/lib/libXmu.6.dylib
  1. Install the Cairo package in R. I installed the source package:
install.packages("Cairo", type="source")

but it might probably work with the binary install too.

Note, not everything was tested to be required... this is just the recipe that worked for me.

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