[R-SIG-Mac] Using X11 from the mac terminal

Hadley Wickham hadley at rice.edu
Tue Jun 7 07:37:32 CEST 2011


Ah, that seems to be the problem - thanks!
Hadley

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> If you are like me and absolutely hate the Apple auto-X11 setting and disabled it then something like
> X11(":0.0")
> should work *after* you start X11. If in doubt, open the xterm and look at
> echo $DISPLAY
> sometimes it may be something like :2 instead (it depends on your other X11 processes, weather and the constellation of stars...)
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Ben Madin wrote:
>
>> Hadley,
>>
>> I get the same result as Duncan, sessionInfo() attached:
>>
>>> X11()
>>> Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")
>> [1] "/tmp/launch-00BR0w/org.x:0"
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.13.0 Patched (2011-05-26 r55996)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> And X11
>>
>> XQuartz 2.3.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56)
>>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/06/2011, at 9:10 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> On 11-06-06 6:56 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>>>> X11()
>>>> Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma,
>>>> d$colortype,  :
>>>>  unable to start device X11
>>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>>> In X11() : unable to open connection to X11 display ''
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?  X11 is open, and I have
>>>>
>>>>> Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")
>>>> [1] "0.0.0.0:0"
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure this used to work, but something has changed in the last few
>>>> months.  Any ideas?
>>>
>>> I'm on a Mac right now that works, but it shows
>>>
>>>> X11()
>>>> Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")
>>> [1] "/tmp/launch-OjzUQo/org.x:0"
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
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