[Rd] tcl problem with R-3.6.3?

Henrik Bengtsson
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:13:10 -0000

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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