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

[Evan Cooch]

Tom --

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.
>

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 
> <mailto: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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