[R-SIG-Mac] R-2.3.0 crashes under ess-5.3.0

[Simon Urbanek]

Robin,

On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Robin Hankin wrote:

> [sending here after trying R-help and ess-help with no success]
>
> With R-2.3.0 (dmg downloaded just now), ess-5.3.0:
>   trying to open an X11 graphics window with
> X11("octopus:0.0") results in R crashing:
>
>
>> X11("octopus:0.0")
> Error: Couldn't find per display information
>
> Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Apr 28 14:05:06 2006
>

Hmm.. this is strange - it works fine in the Terminal, in the GUI and  
in xterm. I suspect that this is some ESS-specific thing, but I have  
no idea what settings ESS changes. I couldn't find the error in R  
sources, either. Martin, do you have any idea where that error comes  
from?

Cheers,
Simon