[R] R GUI for Linux

[ecatchpole]

This is a known problem with Suse10.3 --- lots of things that use Java 
(e.g., Matlab) produce the same error message.  I'm currently trying to 
fix this upon my machine, but haven't succeeded yet.  Josh Triplett 
(http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6532373) suggested 
the following:

---begin---
I worked with jcristau and christoph4 via IRC on #debian-x, and we 
managed to
track down the problem with broken locking in Sun Java 1.5 and 1.6.  It only
occurs if Java finds the Xinerama extension, at which point it does 
something
broken with locking and triggers the assertion.  If Java never finds the
Xinerama extension, it doesn't trigger the assertion for broken locking.

The following workarounds address this problem:

For sun-java5-bin:
sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so
---end---

You need to modify the path for your jre.  This seems to have helped 
several people.  But it didn't work for me.

A sure fix is going back to Suse10.2!  :(

Ted.

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Maura E Monville wrote on 11/01/2007 09:43 AM:
> I have downloaded and tried to install JGR - Java GUI for R - Version 1.5.
> I followed all the instructions (at least in my best resolution) and
> installed Java latest version.
> R installation complete fine.
> Has anyone succeded in installing JGR on SuSE 10.3 ?
> In the following I hade detailed the failed installation,
>
> As root /i did the following:
> linux-Mimin:/usr/local/bin # ./R
>
> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
> Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>   Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
>   
>> install.packages("JGR",dep=TRUE)
>>     
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> CRAN mirror
>
>  1: Argentina                   2: Australia (QLD)
>  3: Australia (VIC)             4: Austria
>  5: Belgium                     6: Brazil (PR)
>  7: Brazil (MG)                 8: Brazil (RJ)
>  9: Brazil (SP 1)              10: Brazil (SP 2)
> 11: Canada (BC)                12: Canada (ON)
> 13: Chile (Santiago)           14: Croatia
> 15: Czech Republic             16: Denmark
> 17: France (Toulouse)          18: France (Lyon)
> 19: France (Paris)             20: Germany (Bamberg)
> 21: Germany (Mainz)            22: Germany (Muenchen)
> 23: India (Kolkata)            24: India
> 25: Ireland                    26: Italy (Ferrara)
> 27: Italy (Milano)             28: Italy (Padua)
> 29: Italy (Palermo)            30: Japan (Aizu)
> 31: Japan (Tokyo)              32: Japan (Tsukuba)
> 33: Korea                      34: Netherlands (Amsterdam 2)
> 35: Netherlands (Amsterdam)    36: Netherlands (Utrecht)
> 37: Norway                     38: Poland (Lublin)
> 39: Poland (Wroclaw)           40: Portugal
> 41: Slovenia (Ljubljana)       42: South Africa
> 43: Spain (Madrid)             44: Sweden
> 45: Switzerland (Zuerich)      46: Switzerland (Bern)
> 47: Taiwan (Taichung)          48: Taiwan (Taipeh)
> 49: UK (Bristol)               50: UK (London)
> 51: USA (CA 1)                 52: USA (CA 3)
> 53: USA (CA 2)                 54: USA (IA)
> 55: USA (IL)                   56: USA (MI)
> 57: USA (MO)                   58: USA (NC)
> 59: USA (PA 2)                 60: USA (PA)
> 61: USA (TX)                   62: USA (WA)
>
>
> Selection: 20
> trying URL 'http://www.centervenus.com/mirrors/CRAN/src/contrib/JGR_1.5-5.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 370920 bytes (362 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 362 Kb
>
> * Installing *source* package 'JGR' ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** help
>  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'JGR'
>      Formats: text html latex example
>   jgr.addMenu                       text    html    latex   example
>   jgr.addMenuItem                   text    html    latex   example
>   jgr.addMenuSeperator              text    html    latex   example
>   supplements                       text    html    latex
> ** building package indices ...
> * DONE (JGR)
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>         /tmp/Rtmp8XtRf8/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>   
>> library(JGR)
>>     
> Loading required package: rJava
> Loading required package: JavaGD
> Loading required package: iplots
> R: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
> Aborted
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>