[Rd] tcl problem with R-3.6.3?

Charles Geyer
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:19:08 -0000

I knew I could work around.  But this shouldn't happen.

And yes.  Same problem with your example.

blurfle$ R --vanilla

R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> ans <- utils::select.list(c("hello", "world",
"again"), graphics=TRUE)
Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTclObjv, objv), class = "tclObj") :
  [tcl] grab failed: window not viewable.
> q()

I didn't bother with sessionInfo() this time.  I presume it would be the
same as before.


AFAIK this is a fully up to date Ubuntu 18.04 box.

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 12:13 PM Henrik Bengtsson <
henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's a simpler example that should reproduce that error for you:
>
>   ans <- utils::select.list(c("hello", "world",
"again"), graphics=TRUE)
>
> Does it?
>
> FYI, I installed R 3.6.3 from source on CentOS 7 a few hours ago, and
> for me the above works just fine.
>
> For your immediate needs of selecting a CRAN mirror, you can set:
>
> options(menu.graphics = FALSE)
>
> as a workaround to skip Tcl-based menus.
>
> /Henrik
>
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:01 AM Charles Geyer <charlie at
stat.umn.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Just built 3.6.3 from source and tcl doesn't work.  Worked fine
with the
> > same laptop in 3.6.2.  Here's the exact error.
> >
> > blurfle$ R --vanilla
> >
> > R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
> > Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution
details.
> >
> >   Natural language support but running in an English locale
> >
> > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> >
> > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line
help, or
> > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> > Type 'q()' to quit R.
> >
> > > sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
> > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> > Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
> >
> > Matrix products: default
> > BLAS:   /home/geyer/local/current/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so
> > LAPACK: /home/geyer/local/current/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so
> >
> > 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
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] compiler_3.6.3
> > > install.packages("aster")
> > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> > Error in structure(.External(.C_dotTclObjv, objv), class =
"tclObj") :
> >   [tcl] grab failed: window not viewable.
> > > q()
> >
> > What's up with that?
> >
> > --
> > Charles Geyer
> > Professor, School of Statistics
> > Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
> > University of Minnesota
> > charlie at stat.umn.edu
> >
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--
Charles Geyer
Professor, School of Statistics
Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota
charlie at stat.umn.edu

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