[R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R

[John Fox]

Dear all,

I wonder whether this issue also accounts for the tcltk problems that have been reported. (I haven't yet upgraded to Yosemite myself, hoping to wait for the wrinkles to be ironed out, though I'll likely do so shortly if only to see what happens.)

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 Amos B. Elberg
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:40 PM
> To: David Winsemius; Hadley Wickham
> Cc: r-sig-mac; Spencer Mass
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R
> 
> If the full environment isn’t getting passed to R-spawned sub-
> processes, that might explain an error I’ve been having since the
> update:  when R is launched from the command line, calls that should
> create an X11 window in the background fail unless an X11 window has
> already been created with the width and height specified:
> 
> > plot(rnorm(100))
> Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height,
> d$pointsize,  :
>   invalid 'width' or 'height'
> > X11()
> Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height,
> d$pointsize,  :
>   invalid 'width' or 'height'
> > X11(width = 5, height = 5)
> > plot(rnorm(100))
> [now it  works - and any number of additional windows can be spawned
> without repeating the error]
> [quitting R and reopening, without quitting XQuartz, and I get the same
> error calling plot() before X11(width = , height = )
> 
> This does not happen in RStudio.  I don’t use the R.app gui; I opened
> it just now to test and I got a slew of path-related errors, but
> they’re as likely to have to do with my not-maintained R.app as with
> anything else.
> 
> I had not reported this already because I wasn’t confident whether its
> a yosemite issue, an R-patched issue, or just something odd in the way
> I built R.
> 
> If incomplete-environment-passing is the new normal, is this not going
> to be a common issue for packages that spawn sub-processes?
> 
> 
> From: Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>
> Reply: Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>>
> Date: October 21, 2014 at 10:12:13 AM
> To: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>>
> Cc: r-sig-mac <r-sig-mac at r-project.org>>, Spencer Mass
> <masss at newpaltz.edu>>
> Subject:  Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R
> 
> > No, it is not. It is expected that the path in the terminal be
> > different to the path in R, it is _not_ expected that the path in R
> be
> > different to the path in a subprocess started by R.
> >
> > (Well it is now expected, because this appears to be a new security
> > feature in Yosemite)
> 
> The best thread I could find on the problem is here:
> https://code.google.com/p/mactlmgr/issues/detail?id=102
> 
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