[Rd] (PR#10379) Re: x11(....) kills R without DISPLAY
hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk
hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk
Sat Oct 27 02:40:18 CEST 2007
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> brechbuehler at gmail.com wrote:
>> Full_Name: Christian Brechbuehler
>> Version: 2.4.1, 2.5.1,
>> OS: Ubuntu GNU/Linux
>> Submission from: (NULL) (24.61.47.236)
>>
>>
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>> Example (start R without DISPLAY from bash):
>> % DISPLAY= R
>> > x11("localhost:11.0") # this is my valid DISPLAY
>> Error: Couldn't find per display information
>> %
<snipped>
>>
> I see this on Fedora 7 too. I suspect that the earlier report was
> thought to be Mac specific.
<snipped>
I was experimenting with xvfb last week and didn't see the catatrophic
problem like that, so I tried again. Is it possible that this has
already been fixed in R 2.6.0 ? (I am on fedora 7, x86_64 as well).
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$ export -n DISPLAY
$ R
R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
...
> x11()
Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1
else gamma, :
unable to start device X11
In addition: Warning message:
In x11() : unable to open connection to X11 display ''
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
$ export DISPLAY=
$ R
R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
...
> x11()
Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1
else gamma, :
unable to start device X11
In addition: Warning message:
In x11() : unable to open connection to X11 display ''
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
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