[R-SIG-Mac] X11 and Yosemite

[Simon Urbanek]

First, please make sure you upgrade at least to R 3.1.2 since pervious version are not fully Yosemite-compatible.

Second, the hack you're mentioning is not necessary if you installed the correct R version, so make sure you have downloaded the Mavericks/Yosemite build.

Third, please check that you don't have 3rd-party libraries installed that would conflict with R or XQuartz. R itself doesn't link to libcairo.2.dylib, so that missing dependency likely comes from some 3rd party library that gets loaded instead of the correct ones. If in doubt, rename /usr/local to something else to verify if erroneous libraries there are breaking your system.

Cheers,
Simon


> On Dec 2, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanvelez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I recently updated my OS to Yosemite (v 10.10.1)
> 
> I installed XQuartz from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/ and
> followed the suggestion at
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26489928/cant-load-x11-in-r-after-os-x-yosemite-upgrade
> However, when I tried
> 
> R> plot(rnorm(10))
> 
> the following error shows up:
> 
> Error in (function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :
>  X11 module cannot be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> In (function (display = "", width, height, pointsize, gamma, bg,  :
>  unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules//R_X11.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules//R_X11.so, 6):
> Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libcairo.2.dylib
>  Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules//R_X11.so
>  Reason: image not found
> 
> When I looked at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/ I could
> actually see the R_X11.so file in there.   The X11.app is located at
> /Applications/Utilities and runs with no problems when initialised.
> 
> Could somebody please point me in the right direction to solve this?
> Below is my sessionInfo() and output from capabilities().
> 
> Thank you very much for your time.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jorge Velez
> 
> 
> R> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  parallel  compiler  stats
> [8] methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] lme4_1.1-7       Rcpp_0.11.3      Matrix_1.1-4     data.table_1.9.4
> [5] ggplot2_1.0.0
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] chron_2.3-45     colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     grid_3.1.1
> [5] gtable_0.1.2     lattice_0.20-29  MASS_7.3-35      minqa_1.2.4
> [9] munsell_0.4.2    nlme_3.1-117     nloptr_1.0.4     plyr_1.8.1
> [13] proto_0.3-10     reshape2_1.4     scales_0.2.4     splines_3.1.1
> [17] stringr_0.6.2
> 
> R> capabilities()
>    jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>    TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>  libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>    TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
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