[R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander
John Fox
jfox at mcmaster.ca
Wed Jul 13 00:09:51 CEST 2011
Dear Andy,
If X11 isn't working, then the problem doesn't have to do with the Rcmdr
package or possibly even with R itself. Maybe Simon will be able to suggest
a solution.
I'm sorry that you're experiencing problems. It would be nice if the tcltk
package could work without Tcl/Tk for X11, but if that were simple I suspect
that it would have been done a long time ago.
Best,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Skelton, James
> Sent: July-12-11 5:48 PM
> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander
>
> X11 is installed; the error recurs even when I've opened it myself
> before invoking Rcmdr.
> In addition, I've installed Rcmdr (and tcltk8.5.5-x11) per the
> instructions at John's site (I learned about Rcmdr via Muenchen's "R for
> SAS and SPSS Users," which provides the URL).
> Simon, I'll forward the crash log to your email address, rather than
> posting to the list. Beware: It's very long.
> --Andy
>
> On 7/12/11 5:32 PM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:18 PM, John Fox wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Andy and Simon,
> >>
> >> There are installation notes for Mac users of the R Commander at
> >>
> >><http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.
> >>htm
> >>l
> >> >.
> >> If after following the steps in the installation notes the Rcmdr
> >> still fails to work, I too would be interested to find that out.
> >
> >The second step in those directions was my guess as to the lesion. My
> >understanding is that in 10.5 and 10.6 X11 is a default installation.
> >
> >--
> >David
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> John
> >>
> >> --------------------------------
> >> John Fox
> >> Senator William McMaster
> >> Professor of Social Statistics
> >> Department of Sociology
> >> McMaster University
> >> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> >> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r-
> >>> project.org] On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek
> >>> Sent: July-12-11 5:08 PM
> >>> To: Skelton, James
> >>> Cc: HelpDesk; r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander
> >>>
> >>> Andy,
> >>>
> >>> please check that you have X11 installed. Also see whether clicking
> >>> on the X11 icon in the GUI toolbar does start X11. Finally, try
> >>> setting
> >>> Sys.setenv(DISPLAY=":0.0")
> >>> before loading tcltk/Rcmdr.
> >>>
> >>> If that doesn't help, please send me the crash log.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Simon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Skelton, James wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I am a brand new user of R, running the Macintosh implementation of
> >>>> R.app
> >>>> 2.13.1 on an iMac 21" (3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo) under OS 10.6.8. I have
> >>>> Administrator privileges on this machine.
> >>>> Upon invoking library(Rcmdr) , I get the notice that tcltk is being
> >>>> called up followed by a system prompt (>). However, the X11 window
> >>>> doesn't open, and nothing at all happens. When I type any
> >>>> legitimate command at the prompt, this appears in the R Console
> window:
> >>>>
> >>>> *** caught bus error ***
> >>>> address 0x4, cause 'non-existent physical address'
> >>>>
> >>>> Traceback:
> >>>> 1: sys.parent()
> >>>> 2: sys.function(sys.parent())
> >>>> 3: formals(sys.function(sys.parent()))
> >>>> 4: match.arg(encoding)
> >>>> 5: match(match.arg(encoding), c("", "bytes", "UTF-8"))
> >>>> 6: textConnection("rval", "w", local = TRUE)
> >>>> 7: capture.output(print(args(help)))
> >>>> 8: paste(capture.output(print(args(help))), collapse = "")
> >>>> 9: gsub("\\s+", " ", paste(capture.output(print(args(help))),
> >>>> collapse
> >>>> =
> >>>> ""))
> >>>> 10: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
> >>>> 11: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
> >>>> 12: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
> >>>> 13: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <-
> conditionCall(e)
> >>> if
> >>>> (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1L]],
> >>> quote(doTryCatch)))
> >>>> call <- sys.call(-4L) dcall <- deparse(call)[1L]
> >>>> prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75L
> >>>> msg
> >>> <-
> >>>> conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]]
> >>>> w <-
> >>> 14L
> >>>> + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w") if
> >>>> (is.na(w)) w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") +
> >>> nchar(sm[1L],
> >>>> type = "b") if (w > LONG) prefix
> <-
> >>>> paste(prefix, "\n ", sep = "") } else prefix <- "Error : "
> >>> msg
> >>>> <- paste(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "")
> >>>> .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L])) if (!silent &&
> >>>> identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) {
> >>>> cat(msg, file = stderr()) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings())
> >>> }
> >>>> invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error"))})
> >>>> 14: try(gsub("\\s+", " ", paste(capture.output(print(args(help))),
> >>>> collapse = "")), silent = TRUE)
> >>>>
> >>>> Possible actions:
> >>>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> >>>> 2: normal R exit
> >>>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
> >>>> 4: exit R saving workspace
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I've forwarded the entire core dump to Apple and have a copy of it
> >>>> but have no idea how to make sense of it.
> >>>> Odd thing is, this problem doesn't occur on my 2008 Macbook at
> >>>> home, which runs the same Mac OS. It's peculiar to the iMac at my
> >>>> worksite.
> >>>> As I'm hoping to use R in some of my advanced undergrad teaching,
> >>>> it'll be helpful to solve this problem so my students can take
> >>>> advantage of the RCommander GUI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for any light you can shed on this!
> >>>>
> >>>> --Andy Skelton
> >>>>
> >>>> *****************************
> >>>> J.A. Skelton
> >>>> Dept. of Psychology, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013-2896
> >>>> E-mail: skelton at dickinson.edu
> >>>> Phone: 717-245-1309
> >>>> *****************************
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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