[ESS-bugs] Fwd: quartz device from R using ESS

[Stephen Eglen]

I'm not sure if this is a bug in ESS, or something more general.

What happens if you do the following in aquamacs?

M-x shell

then start R in the shell, and try same sequence of commands; do you
get an x11 device?

Stephen

David Reitter writes:
 > Begin forwarded message:
 > 
 > > From: Giovanni Parmigiani <gp at jhu.edu>
 > > Date: 10 October 2005 03:50:56 BDT
 > > To: aquamacs-bugs at aquamacs.org
 > > Cc: Giovanni Parmigiani <gp at jhu.edu>
 > > Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] quartz device from R using ESS
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > I fired Aquamacs 0.9.5b
 > > I fired R using ESS
 > >
 > > > capabilities()
 > >     jpeg      png    tcltk      X11 http/ftp  sockets   libxml      
 > > fifo
 > >    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE      
 > > TRUE
 > >   cledit  IEEE754    iconv
 > >    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
 > > > options(device='X11')
 > > > plot(2,3)
 > > Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, gamma, colortype,  
 > > maxcubesize,  :
 > >     unable to start device X11
 > > In addition: Warning message:
 > > unable to open connection to X11 display ''
 > 
 > DR: This works fine for me. But the following might be a bug.
 > 
 > > also for quartz the device does open, but it hangs
 > >
 > > > plot(2,3)
 > > CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow.
 > > Warning message:
 > > quartz() device interactivity reduced without an event loop manager  
 > > in: quartz()
 > > >
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