[R-SIG-Mac] [R] quartz() on MAC OSX

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 22, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> hadley wickham wrote:
>> On 5/22/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 21/05/2007 6:03 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 22/5/07 6:48 AM, "hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Rolf,
>>>>>
>>>>> Two possible solutions:
>>>>>
>>>>>  * DISPLAY=0.0.0.0:0 R - and then X11() should work without  
>>>>> having to use
>>>>> xterm
>>>>>
>>>>>  * install.packages("CarbonEL"); library(CarbonEL); quartz()
>>>>>
>>>> It is clear that life is determined to frustrate me.  I had a  
>>>> look at CRAN
>>>> just now and could find no sign of a package called "CarbonEL".   
>>>> The list
>>>> jumps from "car" to "cat" --- no "Carbon" of any flavour.  What  
>>>> gives?
>>>>
>>> I think the Mac page on CRAN points to something obsolete.  From  
>>> the R
>>> GUI, CarbonEL is visible.  You can also find the source on  
>>> SourceForge
>>> using Google.
>>>
>>> However, it didn't work for me:  I still get the "interactivity  
>>> reduced"
>>> message, and when I try to plot something, just an error
>>> "CGGSStackRestore:  gstack underflow."
>>>
>>
>> I get those messages too, but the plot actually works for me.  Does
>> the quartz window open for you?  Can you interact with it?  (move it,
>> change the size etc).
>>
> (Moved from R-help.)
>
> I took a closer look:  I actually did get the window (hidden under my
> terminal window), and
> interactivity worked partially:  I could use identify, for  
> example.  But
> when I clicked on the red close
> button on the graphics window, it kicked me right out of R:
>
>> library(CarbonEL)
>> plot(1:10,1:10)
>> quartz()
> Warning message:
> quartz() device interactivity reduced without an event loop manager  
> in:
> quartz()
>> plot(1:10,1:10)
> CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow.
>> identify(1:10,1:10)
>
> [Worked fine, then I clicked on the red button...]
>

Not a good idea ;) The window closes and the poor locator has no  
window to wait for clicks so it feels lonely and crashes R out of  
boredom... ;)
Should be fixed now.

FWIW: to get CarbonEL, run
install.packages("CarbonEL",,"http://www.rforge.net")

Cheers,
Simon