[R-SIG-Mac] Lion and X11

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

For what it is worth I don't see this problem on Snow Leopard, self-compiled.

You can make quartz the default device by putting
 Sys.setenv("R_INTERACTIVE_DEVICE" = "quartz")
in your .Rprofile.

Kasper

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Martin Renner <greatauklet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is anybody else experiencing problems with X11 and R under Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)? If yes, maybe it's not specific to my machine. R segfaults when I try to plot to a X11 device, e.g. open R in the terminal and calling
>> plot (1:10)
> (see below). Plotting to a quartz device works fine. I'm using R-2.14.1 (see below), compiled from source using homebrew. I've seen the same issue with the CRAN binaries, with a vanilla compile from source of R-2.14.1 and even with an old R-2.9.2.
>
> I wonder whether I'd have to wait for a fix from Apple, or whether there's a work-around like something that can be done during configuration?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
>> plot (1:10)
>
>  *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x0, cause 'memory not mapped'
>
> Traceback:
>  1: axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...)
>  2: Axis.default(...)
>  3: Axis(...)
>  4: localAxis(if (is.null(y)) xy$x else x, side = 1, ...)
>  5: plot.default(1:10)
>  6: plot(1:10)
>
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>
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