[R-SIG-Mac] Cairo 'Out of memory' error

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:55 PM, John Maindonald wrote:

> I am using R from ESS, with X11 as the default graphics device.
> In due course, when I run a function that tries to open a new
> graphics window, I get the message:
> 
>> g10.6()
> Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma, d$colortype,  : 
> unable to start device X11cairo
> In addition: Warning message:
> In device.call(...) : cairo error 'out of memory'
> 
> This was happening also under R-2.9.1; decided I had better
> report/inquire.  I then have the choice of opening a quartz
> window, or restarting both R and X11.
> 

You may want to report that to R-devel (possibly with more details such as a reproducible example - I don't think g10.6() is in any recommended package...) since the X11 device is not Mac-specific.

Thanks,
Simon


> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) 
> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 
> 
> locale:
> [1] C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     grid      methods  
> [8] base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] DAAG_1.01           randomForest_4.5-33 rpart_3.1-45       
> [4] MASS_7.3-4          lme4_0.999375-32    Matrix_0.999375-32 
> [7] lattice_0.17-26     reshape_0.8.3       plyr_0.1.9         
> [10] proto_0.3-8        
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] coda_0.13-4   ggplot2_0.8.3 tools_2.10.0 
> 
> 
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