[R-SIG-Mac] [External] Re: [External] Re: [External] Please test R 4.0.4 RC

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

the Xcode Command line tools are missing. Install them and see what happens.

Did you recently upgrade MacOS?

el

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On 13 Feb 2021, 23:21 +0200, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu>, wrote:
> That is next. Again a fresh session.
>
>
> > setwd('/Users/rmh/Rwd/')
> > Sys.setenv(DISPLAY=":0.0")
> > X11()
> xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
> Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, :
> unable to start device X11
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In system2("otool", c("-L", shQuote(DSO)), stdout = TRUE) :
> running command ''otool' -L '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/R_X11.so'' had status 1
> 2: In X11() : unable to open connection to X11 display ''
> >
>
>
> and the R session is still alive.
>
>
> This rasies for me a different question. Why should I want X11()?
>
> When X11 was working it was very slow, and didn't allow paging back through
> previous images.
>
> In favor of X11, I think it uses the display space better. X11() has better size and spacing for xlab, ylab, and main than quartz(). But that isn't a strong enough
> reason to use it while develkoping a graph. When I want it to look good,
> I go directly to pdf() and get the spacing that I think looks better.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2021 4:05 PM
> To: Richard M. Heiberger; R-SIG-Mac
> Subject: [External] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [External] Re: [External] Please test R 4.0.4 RC
>
> Have you tried the change to DISPLAY, i.e.
>
> Sys.setenv(DISPLAY=":0.0")
>
> before running X11()?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 13/02/2021 3:50 p.m., Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> > I tried this. It made no difference. Both before and after running
> > sudo xcode-select —install
> > I ran (in both cases, in a brand new *R* sessio n)
> >
> > > X11()
> > xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
> >
> >
> > My prior was that the xcode call was irrelevant is that X11() using XQuart 8.0.3beta
> > worked with intel R_4.0.3 on the Mac M1.
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el using lisse.na>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2021 3:33 AM
> > To: Simon Urbanek; R-SIG-Mac; Richard M. Heiberger
> > Cc: el using lisse.NA
> > Subject: [External] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [External] Please test R 4.0.4 RC
> >
> > that has nothing to do with Xquartz but means you need to install the Command line tools
> >
> > sudo xcode-select —install
> >
> > —
> > Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone
> > On 13 Feb 2021, 06:13 +0200, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh using temple.edu>, wrote:
> > Using the intel R_4.0.4RC on the Mac M1.
> >
> > Based on your recommendation I reinstalled XQuartz 2.7.11 instead of the 8.0.3beta.
> > X11() now does not work at all.
> >
> > X11()
> > xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
> > C-c C-c C-c C-c
> >
> > Force-Killing XQuartz from the Activity Monitor doesn't help.
> > I have to Force-kill the R process.
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org>
> > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 6:50 PM
> > To: R-SIG-Mac
> > Subject: [External] [R-SIG-Mac] Please test R 4.0.4 RC
> >
> > Dear macOS useRs,
> >
> > please test the latest R 4.0.4 RC builds from
> >
> > https://mac.r-project.org/
> >
> > especially if you are running macOS Big Sur. The known issues introduced by Big Sur have been fixed, but I cannot replicate nor test the spurious touchbar warning.
> >
> > Also a reminder to *not* install XQuartz betas even if XQuartz ask you to - they are betas for a reason (=unstable) and break things.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> >
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