[R] 'strange' R graphics problem | Linux...

[Thomas Adams]

Evan,

I have Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10 at home and have not had problems, but I
don't think I've been using R 3.2.2 — I'll try this evening.

Tom

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom --
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> On 10/14/2015 3:35 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
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> Evan,
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> Not that this helps you, but I am using a very similar platform and I am
> having the identical problem. My test simply comes from the first
> help(plot) example. I tried doing some things to 'correct' the problem and
> ended up mucking-up my Gnome environment. In the process, I was able to get
> the example to display correctly, but as I said, I now have an unusable
> system. I'm not sure this is an R specific problem, but some
> incompatibility with the Centos Gnome environment.
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> Thanks very much. I have a couple of Linux Mint 17.x systems as well --
> I'll see if they throw the same problem at me/us.
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So, am running 3.2.2 on a Centos 6.xx box. Code executes fine, but I'm
>> having a heck of a time with graphics. I don't think this is related to R
>> in the broad sense, but how it is interacting with graphics on the system.
>> here is a description of the problem.
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>> 1\ something simple:  test <- rnorm(100)
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>> 2\ try to generate a simple histogram  using hist(test)
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>> 3\ what happens is that a terminal window pops up (as I would expect for
>> the graphic), but rather than showing the histogram, its essentially a
>> screen-capture of the original terminal window in which I ran the script.
>> Said second terminal window is not responsive, at all -- can't even close
>> it short of opening another shell, and killing the process from the CLI.
>>
>> 4\ I get the exact same problem even if I try  a simple plot.new() --
>> generate a new terminal window, but with the same problem 'attributes' as
>> described above.
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>> For what it works, when I fire up gnuplot, terminal type set to X11 --
>> and basic gnuplot graphics (e.g., plot sin(x)) work perfectly. Other
>> graphics seem to work fine too. Just nothing I try to plot using R.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the output of
>> sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see.
>>
>> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
>> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
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>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
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