[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 13.09 [svn: 5778 (2013-09-27)]; must start graphics on mac explicitly

[Richard M. Heiberger]

Please see the R-help and the R-mac-sig list over the last week for many many
problems with R and the new Mavericks OSX.

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
> When I run R in console, everything works perfectly (see my original report).
> when I run R in the Emacs *shell* buffer, R exits and a new dialog is displayed:
> "To open R you need to install X11".
> "require(grDevices)" makes no difference.
> "quartz()" creates a new window after which "plot" works.
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is an even more severe issue on mac with emacs/ESS/R. See
>> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/36
>>
>> It could not be an ESS issue but something at a much lower level and
>> only specific to mac.
>>
>> Can you reproduce in emacs shell or os terminal with the same start
>> args?
>>
>> If you don't start the device but load the library grDevices, does it
>> help?
>>
>> I have the following in my .Rprofile on ubuntu:
>>
>> require(grDevices)
>> X11.options(type="nbcairo")
>>
>> to solve a re-display issue on graphic devices.
>>
>>    Vitalie
>>
>>
>>  >>> Sebastian Luque on Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:04:13 -0600 wrote:
>>
>>  > On 2013-11-07 16:54, "Sam Steingold" <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
>>  >> No, I have been using mac for about 10 days.
>>  >>
>>  >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>>  >> wrote:
>>  >>>>
>>  >>>> OS X 10.9 (13A603)
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Hmmm... I wonder if 10.9 is the problem?  Did you ever see this problem
>>  >>> before 10.9 (or have you not used mac pre 10.9?)
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Stephen
>>
>>  > Sam, I've also recently started using an iMac (OS X 10.8.5) partially at
>>  > work, but I've built my own Emacs and am using the latest SVN ESS.  I
>>  > can't reproduce your issue.  However, note this:
>>
>>  > http://michaelgalloy.com/2013/10/23/os-x-mavericks.html
>>
>>  > Cheers,
>
>
>
> --
> Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org> <http://www.childpsy.net/>
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