centos7 Rstudio failed to load cairo DLL

I am trying to plot using Rstudio. But when I do, I am getting an Graphics Error in R. Here is what I have done :

yum install cairo cairo-devel cairomm-devel libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo-devel pango pango-devel pangomm pangomm-devel libtiff libtiff-devel libXt libXt-devel libpng libpng-devel

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_3.1.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.1       withr_2.1.2      assertthat_0.2.1 crayon_1.3.4     dplyr_0.8.0.1    R6_2.4.0        
 [7] grid_3.5.2       plyr_1.8.4       gtable_0.3.0     magrittr_1.5     scales_1.0.0     pillar_1.3.1    
[13] rlang_0.3.4      lazyeval_0.2.2   rstudioapi_0.10  tools_3.5.2      glue_1.3.1       purrr_0.3.2     
[19] munsell_0.5.0    compiler_3.5.2   pkgconfig_2.0.2  colorspace_1.4-1 tidyselect_0.2.5 tibble_2.1.1 
> capabilities()
       jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua    http/ftp     sockets      libxml 
       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 
       fifo      cledit       iconv         NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl 
       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 
Warning message:
In doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler) :
  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/modules//R_X11.so':
  /usr/lib64/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates
> library(ggplot2)
> ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), mpg)) + geom_violin(aes(fill = cyl))
Error in RStudioGD() : 
  Shadow graphics device error: r error 4 (R code execution error)
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
> warnings()
Warning messages:
1: In grDevices:::png("/tmp/RtmpqJD7g6/2c22d9968be54dd48ead81d0a29fa0f2.png",  ... :
  failed to load cairo DLL
2: In grDevices:::png("/tmp/RtmpqJD7g6/3802e757470f48c8a14ab91ea2c99c54.png",  ... :
  failed to load cairo DLL

Please guide me through,How would I fix this? Thanks

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15543 might be relevant.

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