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

[John Maindonald]

As this occurs only after some combination of computations and
use of graphics commands, maybe extending over several days,
it is not possible to provide a reproducible example.   Once the
session gets into this state, any attempt to open an X11 window
triggers the output that I obtained.  It seems unimportant whether
this is a direct call to x11(), or to a plotting function that requires
the opening of an X11 window.  

So all that I can usefully report on may be the state of my session 
when the behaviour was triggered.  I wll try running a large number 
of graphics commands in a new session, that open and close the 
X11 graphics device, to look for a sequence of commands that 
consistently triggers the behaviour.

John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.
http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm

On 06/12/2009, at 11:02 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 
> 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 
>> 
>> 
>> John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
>> phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
>> Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
>> John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
>> Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.
>> http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm
>> 
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