'strange' R graphics problem | Linux...

Evan,

I have Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10 at home and have not had problems, but I 
don't think I've been using R 3.2.2 ? I'll try this evening.

Tom

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com 
<mailto:evan.cooch at gmail.com>> wrote:

    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