[R] dev() error

[Laura Quinn]

Thank you for all your help!

I have finally solved the issue by simply externally saving all my R
session info and restarting the session from another place, it seems to be
working this time. It seems I was getting my pathways a little mixed up.

Thanks again.
Laura

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> On 16-Jun-04 Laura Quinn wrote:
> > 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!
>
> It looks as though you may be logged in to two different machines
> for your two R sessions, in which case it looks as though one of
> them has ascertained the X display for your machine (i.e. the one
> you are sitting at), and the other has not. (Indeed, the one that
> works might be your machine itself, in which case it knows anyway).
>
> Test:
>
> 1. In the xterm logged in to the machine which works, before starting R,
>    enter
>
>      echo $DISPLAY
>
> 2. On the xterm logged in to the machine which does not work, before
>    starting R, enter
>
>      echo $DISPLAY
>
> For example, I'm using machine "compo" here on which is an xterm
> logged in to another machine called "brandy". So, in this xterm,
>
>   ted at brandy:~ > echo $DISPLAY
>   compo.fort.knox.uk:0.0
>
> showing that "brandy" knows the X display destination for "compo".
>
> So, when you do (1) above, you should see something similar. If I'm
> right, when you do (2) above, you will probably just get a blank
> response.
>
> If that happens, then you have to see about getting the (2) machine
> to set the DISPLAY variable when you log in to it. This can be tricky:
> I've known cases where the cause was quite deeply hidden. Basically,
> the information for the DISPLAY variable is ascertained by a script
> which is run when you log in to the remote machine, which may be
> a sub-script of some other script, ...
>
> I hope this helps,
> Ted.
>
>
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