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

[Thomas Adams]

Evan,

I have R 3.2.2 installed on my Ubuntu 15.04 machine -- no problems with the
graphics display. I have R 3.1.1 installed on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine,
that, as expected I have not had any problems with... I tried to install
3.2.2 and 3.2.1 from source and got a very strange compile error, which I
need to sort out -- recompiling 3.1.1 failed as well...

Best,
Tom

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at cornell.edu> wrote:

> A clue --
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> Working from home, I created an ssh tunnel into my CentOS box, and brought
> up the desktop remotely using VNC. Fire up R in a terminal, and *voila*,
> graphics work fine.
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> So, if I'm sitting at the CentOS machine, R graphics choke and die. If I
> use a remote desktop approach, graphics fine.
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> Very strange...
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> Forgot to add before, here are the 'capabilities' from my R install -- X11
> and cairo both 'there', so not sure what the problem is.
>
>        jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE
>    http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
>         NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl
>        TRUE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE
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> On 10/14/2015 4:00 PM, Evan Cooch wrote:
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> On 10/14/2015 3:51 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
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> Evan,
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> 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.
>
>
> Indeed - it could be an R-version issue, and not so much the distro. I
> might, for chuckles, roll back to 3.2.1, and see what happens.
>
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 1\ something simple:  test <- rnorm(100)
>>>
>>> 2\ try to generate a simple histogram  using hist(test)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> 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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