[R-SIG-Mac] problems with X11 in R 2.11.0

[Simon Urbanek]

I can only second Brian's response. The build machine is a completely clean Mac OS X 10.5.8 (up to date with all recent security updates) - I have not installed any custom X11 updates. I don't know why Seth has an outdated libpng in the X11 installation. Seth, please make sure your system is up to date. Given the date of the last update I would suspect that  Software Update should resolve this issue (if that is the case it's nonetheless a little annoying that Apple's security update would break backward compatibility).

Cheers,
Simon


On May 3, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Something is wrong with your system software.  On my Leopard box:
> 
> tystie% otool -L /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/i386/R_X11.so
> ...
> 	/usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.0.0)
> 
> So your /usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib is different from mine (and from the CRAN build machine's).
> 
> Your choices are
> 
> - to resolve this (and it is not an R issue). I'd start by running the software updater ....
> 
> - to build R from the sources against the software on your machine.
> 
> On Sun, 2 May 2010, steven mosher wrote:
> 
>> I had the same Issue with 2.10.1. never got it resolved. I was hoping that
>> 2.11 would fix it...alas
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Seth Schommer <scschommer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I installed R 2.11.0 today and immediately came across an issue I did
>>> not experience using version 2.10.1.  For some reason, I can not use
>>> X11 in R.  Here's a simple example:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> X11()
>>> Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded
>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>> In X11() :
>>> unable to load shared library
>>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/i386/R_X11.so':
>>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/i386/R_X11.so,
>>> 6): Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib
>>> Referenced from:
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/i386/R_X11.so
>>> Reason: Incompatible library version: R_X11.so requires version
>>> 42.0.0 or later, but libpng12.0.dylib provides version 36.0.0
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
>>> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8.  This error occurs when running R.app and
>>> while running R from the terminal.  After experience this I
>>> reinstalled 2.10.1 and tried the same command and had no problems.
>>> Just to make sure, I installed 2.11.0 again, and sure enough, I got
>>> the same error.  Is this a bug, or have I done something wrong?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Seth
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
>>> R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
>>> 
>> 
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
>> R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
> 
>