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

[Evan Cooch]

A clue --

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.

So, if I'm sitting at the CentOS machine, R graphics choke and die. If I 
use a remote desktop approach, graphics fine.

Very strange...

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

On 10/14/2015 4:00 PM, Evan Cooch wrote:
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> On 10/14/2015 3:51 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> Tom
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>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com 
>> <mailto: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:
>>>     Evan,
>>>
>>>     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:
>>>
>>>         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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