So, am running 3.2.2 on a Centos 6.xx box. Code executes fine, but I'm having a heck of a time with graphics. I don't think this is related to R in the broad sense, but how it is interacting with graphics on the system. here is a description of the problem. 1\ something simple: test <- rnorm(100) 2\ try to generate a simple histogram using hist(test) 3\ what happens is that a terminal window pops up (as I would expect for the graphic), but rather than showing the histogram, its essentially a screen-capture of the original terminal window in which I ran the script. Said second terminal window is not responsive, at all -- can't even close it short of opening another shell, and killing the process from the CLI. 4\ I get the exact same problem even if I try a simple plot.new() -- generate a new terminal window, but with the same problem 'attributes' as described above. For what it works, when I fire up gnuplot, terminal type set to X11 -- and basic gnuplot graphics (e.g., plot sin(x)) work perfectly. Other graphics seem to work fine too. Just nothing I try to plot using R. Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the output of sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see. R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
Evan, Not that this helps you, but I am using a very similar platform and I am having the identical problem. My test simply comes from the first help(plot) example. I tried doing some things to 'correct' the problem and ended up mucking-up my Gnome environment. In the process, I was able to get the example to display correctly, but as I said, I now have an unusable system. I'm not sure this is an R specific problem, but some incompatibility with the Centos Gnome environment. Tom On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com> wrote:> So, am running 3.2.2 on a Centos 6.xx box. Code executes fine, but I'm > having a heck of a time with graphics. I don't think this is related to R > in the broad sense, but how it is interacting with graphics on the system. > here is a description of the problem. > > 1\ something simple: test <- rnorm(100) > > 2\ try to generate a simple histogram using hist(test) > > 3\ what happens is that a terminal window pops up (as I would expect for > the graphic), but rather than showing the histogram, its essentially a > screen-capture of the original terminal window in which I ran the script. > Said second terminal window is not responsive, at all -- can't even close > it short of opening another shell, and killing the process from the CLI. > > 4\ I get the exact same problem even if I try a simple plot.new() -- > generate a new terminal window, but with the same problem 'attributes' as > described above. > > For what it works, when I fire up gnuplot, terminal type set to X11 -- and > basic gnuplot graphics (e.g., plot sin(x)) work perfectly. Other graphics > seem to work fine too. Just nothing I try to plot using R. > > Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the output of > sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see. > > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Tom -- On 10/14/2015 3:35 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:> Evan, > > Not that this helps you, but I am using a very similar platform and I > am having the identical problem. My test simply comes from the first > help(plot) example. I tried doing some things to 'correct' the problem > and ended up mucking-up my Gnome environment. In the process, I was > able to get the example to display correctly, but as I said, I now > have an unusable system. I'm not sure this is an R specific problem, > but some incompatibility with the Centos Gnome environment. >Thanks very much. I have a couple of Linux Mint 17.x systems as well -- I'll see if they throw the same problem at me/us.> Tom > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com > <mailto:evan.cooch at gmail.com>> wrote: > > So, am running 3.2.2 on a Centos 6.xx box. Code executes fine, but > I'm having a heck of a time with graphics. I don't think this is > related to R in the broad sense, but how it is interacting with > graphics on the system. here is a description of the problem. > > 1\ something simple: test <- rnorm(100) > > 2\ try to generate a simple histogram using hist(test) > > 3\ what happens is that a terminal window pops up (as I would > expect for the graphic), but rather than showing the histogram, > its essentially a screen-capture of the original terminal window > in which I ran the script. Said second terminal window is not > responsive, at all -- can't even close it short of opening another > shell, and killing the process from the CLI. > > 4\ I get the exact same problem even if I try a simple plot.new() > -- generate a new terminal window, but with the same problem > 'attributes' as described above. > > For what it works, when I fire up gnuplot, terminal type set to > X11 -- and basic gnuplot graphics (e.g., plot sin(x)) work > perfectly. Other graphics seem to work fine too. Just nothing I > try to plot using R. > > Anyone have any ideas as to what to look for/try? Here is the > output of sessionInfo() -- nothing obvious that I can see. > > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: CentOS release 6.7 (Final) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org <mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing list -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]