[Rd] Re: [R-SIG-Mac]4. Exit Gifi Gnome problem

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jan 8 09:23:02 2003


It is bug PR#2366.  That describes the fix too.

Please do make use of the R-bugs database!

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> Confirmed. It is not your version of R or environment or the window
> manager
> (happens in OroborOSX, sawfish, blackbox). So it must be R-gnome, or
> gnome from fink, or gnome itself. Would be good if it could be
> verified/falsified
> on other gnome systems.
>
> On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Joseph Kunkel wrote:
>
> > Following from R-Sig-Mac digest #238 ...
> > I installed R as suggested in R.pdf "4. Exit Gifi".
> > On starting R with
> >
> > R --gui=gnome
> >
> > The system works reasonably but demo(graph) plots several demo graphs
> > and their labeling off its window and the problem can not be cured by
> > simple resizing the screen.  This is only a bug when using gnome.
> > When using the regular Xterm invocation of R all demo(graphs) behave
> > as they should.
> >
> > I assume this is a problem with gnome?  Is this problem catalogued and
> > solved yet?
> >
> > Joe
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Joseph G. Kunkel, Professor
> > Biology Department
> > University of Massachusetts Amherst
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