fix and edit don't work: unable to open X Input

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:32:49 -0600 From: Paul Johnson
<pauljohn32 at gmail.com> To: R-help <r-help at r-project.org> Subject: [R]
fix and edit don't work: unable to open X Input Method->segfault
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 I can't run fix() or
edit() anymore. Did I break my system? I'm running Debian Linux with
R-2.14.1. As far as I can tell, the R packages came from Debian's
testing "wheezy" repository. I would like to know if users on other
types of systems see the same problem. If no, then, obviously, it is a
Debian-only issue and I can approach it from that point of view. And
if no other Debian users see same, it means it is a me-only problem,
and that's discouraging :) I get this same R crash whether I try fix
when R is running in a terminal or in Emacs with ESS. I've not seen
this before, but Google leads to some bug reports on Ubuntu in 2007,
where it was claimed that the problem was fixed. The really bad part
is that the second try causes a segmentation fault in R itself.

 library(ggplot2)

Loading required package: reshape
Loading required package: plyr

Attaching package: ?reshape?

The following object(s) are masked from ?package:plyr?:
     rename, round_any

Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: proto

 sessionInfo()

R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

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=C                 LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C

[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_0.8.9 proto_0.3-9.2 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.6

 fix(mpg)

Error in dataentry(datalist, modes) : invalid device
In addition: Warning message:

In edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), title = subx, ...) :
   unable to open X Input Method

 fix(mpg)

  
  *** caught segfault ***

address (nil), cause 'unknown'

Traceback:
  1: edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), title = subx, ...)
  2: edit(get(subx, envir = parent), title = subx, ...)
  3: fix(mpg)

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection:


Same happens no matter what packages are loaded, so far as I can tell.

  Here it is without ggplot2, in case you were suspicious of those

particular datasets.

 library(datasets)
 datasets()

Error: could not find function "datasets"

 help(package=datasets)
 fix(CO2)

Error in dataentry(datalist, modes) : invalid device
In addition: Warning message:

In edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), title = subx, ...) :
   unable to open X Input Method

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