[R-SIG-Mac] Problems with R.app GUI

[Simon Urbanek]

Bruce,

On May 10, 2006, at 10:42 PM, Bruce Boucek wrote:

> I am experiencing the same problem/flaw in the GUI for R 2.3.0 that  
> a few other people have posted concern about.
>
> With R-GUI-3121-2.3
> Entering demo() at the prompt results in the following message:
> 2006-05-10 12:31:26.370 open[1512] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned  
> -10814 for application (null) urls file://localhost/tmp/Rtmp04NeEd/ 
> RpackageIQR10d63af1.

Ok, I'll check that one - we need a more clean solution for external  
files, so it may be worth changing a bit more.

> As an aside -
> For those having similar problems, I recommend using R in the  
> terminal with library(tcltk). One note though, apparently something  
> has changed in the implementation of X11R6 on MacOSX 10.4. I used  
> to have my display variable set in my bash .profile as:
>
> export DISPLAY=0:0
>

This is wrong and it was pure luck that it worked. The format is  
[<host>]:<display>[.<screen>] so you're asking for host "0" which is  
invalid.

> Apparently the correct setting is now:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
>

Yes and always was.

Cheers,
Simon