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

[Seth Schommer]

Well I feel a little silly.  After running the software updater, R
works just fine.  Thanks for the assistance.

Seth

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 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
>>>
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