hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk
2007-Oct-27 00:40 UTC
[Rd] (PR#10379) Re: x11(....) kills R without DISPLAY
Peter Dalgaard wrote:> brechbuehler at gmail.com wrote: >> Full_Name: Christian Brechbuehler >> Version: 2.4.1, 2.5.1, >> OS: Ubuntu GNU/Linux >> Submission from: (NULL) (24.61.47.236) >> >><snipped>>> Example (start R without DISPLAY from bash): >> % DISPLAY= R >> > x11("localhost:11.0") # this is my valid DISPLAY >> Error: Couldn't find per display information >> %<snipped>>> > I see this on Fedora 7 too. I suspect that the earlier report was > thought to be Mac specific.<snipped> I was experimenting with xvfb last week and didn't see the catatrophic problem like that, so I tried again. Is it possible that this has already been fixed in R 2.6.0 ? (I am on fedora 7, x86_64 as well). ------------------------------------------ $ export -n DISPLAY $ R R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) ... > x11() Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1 else gamma, : unable to start device X11 In addition: Warning message: In x11() : unable to open connection to X11 display '' > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n $ export DISPLAY$ R R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) ... > x11() Error in X11(display, width, height, pointsize, if (is.null(gamma)) 1 else gamma, : unable to start device X11 In addition: Warning message: In x11() : unable to open connection to X11 display '' > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n