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

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 2, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Robin Hankin wrote:

> my laptop (also MacOSX10.4.6) has exactly the same symptoms using
> R-2.3.0 and ESS 5.2.3.  The laptop also works fine with R-2.2.1.
>
> any other ideas?

Yes, Matt Cohen did provide the solution for this one earlier on the  
list, use the DISPLAY setting instead of the X11 parameter, so  
something like this should work

Sys.putenv(DISPLAY=":0.0")
X11()

Cheers,
Simon

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> On 28 Apr 2006, at 23:17, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> 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
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