[R] How to repress the annoying complains from X window system

[John Fox]

Dear Mark and Adrian,

I was under the impression that these errors were fixed in R 2.4.0; you
could try setting the Rcmdr option suppress.X11.warnings=TRUE and see
whether that helps (but first read the information on the option in
?Commander).

As Mark mentioned, I'm currently at the useR conference and don't have
access to a Linux system here, so I can't check directly.

I hope that this helps,
 John

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:32:28 -0500
 Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 08/09/2008 06:06 PM dusa.adrian wrote:
> > Dear Marc,
> > 
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:25 -0400, Hao Liu wrote:
> >>> Dear All:
> >>>
> >>> I am running some GUI functions in linux environment, they runs
> fine, 
> >>> however I constantly get this kind of message in R console:
> >>>
> >>> Warning: X11 protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to repress it? Or am I doing something wrong
> here.. it 
> >>> does not interfere with the running of fucntion though.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Hao
> >> Upgrade your version of R.
> >>
> >> You have not provided sufficient details, but if I had to guess,
> you are
> >> either running RCmdr or using other tcl/tk based widgets.
> >>
> >> If correct, the error message that you are seeing was fixed back
> in R
> >> 2.4.0:
> >>
> >> o	The X11() device no longer produces (apparently spurious)
> >> 	'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)' warnings when run from
> >> 	Rcmdr.
> >>
> > 
> > I'm digging on a past message, where you said that message was
> fixed in R
> > 2.4.0.
> > However, I'm using R 2.7.1 (under Kubuntu Hardy Heron, with tcl and
> tk
> > version 8.4) and still experience the same message with Rcmdr.
> > For reproduction, this happens when using (before loading Rcmdr):
> > options(Rcmdr=list(console.output=TRUE)).
> > 
> > In addition to this error message, I also get sometimes this one
> (repeated
> > 17 times at once):
> > 
> > Warning in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE =
> "tcltk"), class
> > = "tclObj") :
> >   X11 protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> > 
> >> R.version
> >                _
> > platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch           i486
> > os             linux-gnu
> > system         i486, linux-gnu
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          7.1
> > year           2008
> > month          06
> > day            23
> > svn rev        45970
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any hint,
> > Adrian
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> Apologies for the delay in my reply. I am at useR in Dortmund and
> between travel this weekend, the sessions and some residual jet lag,
> I am just getting caught up on e-mails.
> 
> I am cc:ing John Fox (who is also here) as the author of Rcmdr, to
> see if he might have any ideas on this.
> 
> I also searched the list archives to see if there was anything recent
> that was relevant. The most recent post appears to be from John in
> August of last year:
> 
>    http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/08/23742.html
> 
> and suggests that there may be some issue at play here subsequent to
> the presumptive R 2.4.0 fix.
> 
> I will defer to John on any more definitive comments.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Schwartz

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Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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