[R] dev() error

[Peter Dalgaard]

Laura Quinn <laura at env.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

> No nothing like that, I am running two parallel R sessions (something I
> often do) and the other one is working absolutely fine - I am working
> directly from my network, not via ssh, and certainly am not privvy to any
> super user passwords!

> > > 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`'

Well, *something* zapped your DISPLAY environment variable... You
might try  Sys.getenv("DISPLAY") in the session that works and
Sys.putenv(DISPLAY=....) in the one that doesn't.

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